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BC health authorities suggest positive effects of measures imposed in BC should begin to be felt in the next week or two
BY , Mar 27, 2020 10:29 PM - REPORT AN ERRORLAST UPDATED ON Apr 24, 2020 3:33 PM
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry responds to questions during a news conference about the provincial response to the coronavirus, in Vancouver, on Friday, March 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry responds to questions during a news conference about the provincial response to the coronavirus, in Vancouver, on Friday, March 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
BC's provincial health officer is cautiously optimistic that BC's experience with COVID-19 SSwill more closely mirror South Korea which has stemmed the outbreak that Italy, where cases continue to mount.
The province has released what it calls its ``worst case scenario'' when dealing with the pandemic.
Henry says BC's health care system would be overwhelmed if an outbreak occurred on the scale currently underway in Italy, but she says data suggests we may see a flattening of the curve.
She says the positive effects of physical distancing, travel restrictions and other measures imposed in BC should begin to be felt in the next week or two.
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