B.C. expands health-care vaccine mandate to include dentists, chiropractors and other regulated professionals

B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has announced that the province’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers will now include dentists, chiropractors and other health practitioners regulated by B.C.’s health-care colleges.

Henry made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday. The vaccination deadline under the new order is Mar. 24 for all health-care practitioners who were not covered by an initial order on Oct. 26.

The Oct. 26 mandate covered all workers in acute care and long-term care settings, with Henry, at the time, announcing she was working with the province’s 19 regulatory colleges on the new order.

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