Keep Your Distance, Says BC Provincial Health Officer

Health care workers speak with an elderly woman at a Covid-19 assessment center in London, Ontario, Canada, on March 17, 2020. Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images

British Columbians need to take the new coronavirus protocols seriously, stay home when possible, and maintain social distancing in public, said the B.C. Medical Officer of Health.

“This is not optional,” said Dr. Bonnie Henry, who earlier this week declared the COVID−19 pandemic a public health emergency. “We still are on the upswing, and that’s why it is so, so important that we take… the physical distancing measures.”