Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday nearly 94% of practising and regulated professionals have received at least two doses of a vaccine or have a medical exemption from her office as of April 25.
The funding is the first to come from a year-old budget pledge to spend $45 million over three years to help organizations make sexual and reproductive information and services more available.
County councillors were told county paramedics began the transition from COVID-19 testing clinics to Clinical Assessment Centres over the past several weeks.
Leader Steven Del Duca said a Liberal government would put the additional funding into allowing hospitals to operate "significantly'' above pre-pandemic volumes.
Certain aspects of the new physicians services agreement–such as improved pregnancy and parental leave–will, help, said Dr. Rose Zacharias. But others changes need to happen.
A new report from CIHI shows pandemic waves continue to impact wait times for elective surgeries—but we're getting better at weathering the impact on spikes in infections.
