Health officials in B.C. are being urged to accelerate the province’s vaccine rollout over fears a constantly mutating virus could outrun currently available vaccines if left to spread without control for months.

Modelling experts at Simon Fraser University say the threat of a variant mutation that will render vaccines useless is a looming fear and opportunities to stem the spread of current variants in B.C. were lost.

Their call comes as B.C. moves to put stricter travel restrictions in place, and as