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Among them: the requirement for universal mask-wearing by all staff and visitors in health-care facilities.

As pandemic safety measures continue to ease, COVID-19 awareness group Protect Our Province BC notes continued potential risks posed by virus.

Conservative Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad called on the B.C. government to rehire unvaccinated health-care workers.

The findings come as researchers look to uncover the origin of the pandemic and catch potentially serious mutations in immuno-compromised people and wild animals.

Criteria to get the antiviral in B.C. are more restrictive than in other jurisdictions

The BC Liberal Party has been calling on the government to lift the mandate.

"There's so many stories that we have lived through together in the last three years. And I think all of us have been changed by it and affected by it," she said.

Boosters will target the vulnerable, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Friday.

Overall, Canadians' trust in governments for mitigating violence has decreased.

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have taken a relatively limited toll on overall global mental health, Canadian researchers say in a new study published in the British Medical Journal.