VANCOUVER — British Columbia unveiled a fall COVID-19 battle plan that includes newly approved booster vaccines and flu shots to ward off the expected return of respiratory illnesses, with few expectations for more lockdowns and mask mandates.
COVID-19 remains a threat, but vaccines have helped change the nature of the disease for most people in B.C., and a return to wearing masks or lockdown orders is not likely unless a strong new variant appears, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday.
The population's level of immunity is higher than at the start of the pandemic, but B.C. is still not at the point"where we can let our guard down," she said. Health Canada's recently approved bivalent vaccines that offer protection against COVID-19 variants, including the Omicron variant, will be a major part of the fall campaign, she said.
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