Dr. Bonnie Henry said that public servants from various provincial ministries have been doing that work to ensure about 18,000 people so far have followed quarantine plans after returning to B.C.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on as Premier John Horgan discusses reopening the province's economy in phases in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the rotunda at Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on May 6, 2020.British Columbia’s top doctor says she strongly encourages the federal government to use its resources to monitor international travellers entering the province instead of providing any help with contact tracing.
“To me, that is going to be an absolutely critical thing if and when we open up our borders, particularly with the United States,” she said. “We need to have meticulous follow-up of people who are coming across our borders to make sure that they isolate when they get here and if they have symptoms they are not passing them on to anybody else in B.C.”Henry said provincial officials will be speaking with her federal counterparts on how that could be done.
Henry said the province is beefing up public health teams of “expert virus hunters” this summer to ensure testing and tracing of the illness is kept up before more cases are probable in the fall with the arrival of other respiratory illnesses. Henry encouraged people to keep gatherings small as the weather improves to prevent outbreaks and enable public health officials to quickly find those who may have become infected to prevent dramatic increases of COVID-19 cases.
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