COVID-19 update on Monday afternoon.Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry will speak at a 3 p.m.
press conference, which will be carried live on BC1, on our website, the Global BC Facebook page and CKNW.The update comes after the opening of British Columbia’s call centre to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments.Dix said the appointment booking line received 1.7 million calls as of 9:40 a.m.
Monday despite the fact that only about 82,000 people — those born in 1931 or earlier and Indigenous people born in 1946 and earlier — are eligible to receive an appointment at this time.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Many of those same people have already received a.