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Henry called accusations levelled recently by the B.C. Nurses’ Union that some health-care administrators had jumped the queue to receive the vaccine “unfortunate.”
“We are rolling this out to people who have been designated. Our focus as we have said from the very beginning is protecting those who are most at-risk, our elders and seniors in long-term care, and workers in long-term care, and acute-care health care workers, particularly in ICU, and that is what the focus has been,” she said.
Henry said some people in administrative roles are among those who go in and manage outbreaks in long-term care homes: “They need to be protected so that when they go into those outbreak situations they are not bringing the virus with them as well.”
To date, 29,000 Pfizer doses have arrived in B.C., 3,800 people received vaccines in Week 1 of the rollout, 8,000 the second week and up to 20,000 will be vaccinated by the end of next week.
Henry said from Dec. 24-25 that 512 people in the province had tested positive for COVID-19; from Dec. 25-26, 447; from Dec. 26-27, 424; from Dec. 27-28, 441; and from Dec. 28-29, 283 has tested positive. The five-day total was 2,206, with 378 in Vancouver Coastal health, 1,375 in Fraser Health, 44 in Island Health, 238 in Interior Health, and 171 in Northern Health.
There are currently 7,580 active cases in the province, 373 are hospitalized and 80 are in critical care or ICU. There were 74 deaths over the last five days.
dryan@postmedia.com
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