B.C. launches spring COVID-19 vaccination campaign as respiratory season comes to a close

Brenna Owen · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 5:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

British Columbia's top doc says respiratory unwellness play has travel to an end, but the state volition soon motorboat a outpouring COVID-19 immunization run and encourages everyone to guarantee they're afloat protected against measles.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says COVID-19 hospitalizations person reached their lowest levels since 2020, portion respiratory cases person been declining. 

Still, Henry says determination person been resurgences successful outpouring and summertime successful the past, and the state is focused connected protecting radical astatine the highest hazard of superior illness.

Health Minister Josie Osborne says the state is preparing to motorboat its latest COVID-19 immunization run connected April 8 while ending the request for aesculapian masks successful health-care settings wherever patients are being cared for.

Henry and Osborne are besides asking everyone calved aft 1970 to cheque their immunization records to guarantee they're afloat protected against measles.

Henry says determination is simply a "very concerning" resurgence of measles underway globally, and while B.C. has seen conscionable 5 travel-related cases truthful far, it would beryllium "very overmuch a challenge" if the microorganism began circulating successful areas with debased levels of protection.

There has been misinformation and "concerning messages" astir vaccination against measles, peculiarly coming from southbound of the border, Henry told the quality conference, saying she wanted to marque wide determination is an "abundance of evidence" astir the information and efficacy of the vaccine successful eliminating measles since 1970.

"This is simply a vaccine that is tried and tested and true," she said.

"It's hard to ideate going backmost to however terrible it was erstwhile these infections utilized to dispersed done our communities each year."