Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) will begin vaccinating front-line health care workers and long-term care residents in Whistler and Pemberton next week.
VCH has already started vaccinating front line workers in Squamish, the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination in the community.
At this time, COVID-19 vaccines are not available for the general public, although deliveries will continue to arrive and expand to other groups in the following weeks and months.
Those eligible for this phase of the vaccination program will include long-term care residents, staff, medical staff and essential visitors, as well as eligible acute care staff and medical staff.
Those eligible for the vaccine will be contacted directly.
Following the first phase of vaccinations, most other people in B.C. will be vaccinated starting after March 2021.
Sequencing of eligible individuals will be in phases as more vaccines arrive and are distributed province-wide.
“Vaccines do more than protect the people getting vaccinated; they also protect everyone around them,” VCH said.
“The more people in a community who are vaccinated and protected from COVID-19, the harder it is for the virus to spread.”
More information about the vaccination strategy and roll-out can be found on BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) website at: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine
