Health chief says Covid-19 outbreaks were not declared in Vancouver care homes to avoid being ‘overly cautious’


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British Columbia’s top health officer has defended a policy in which Covid-19 outbreaks were deliberately not declared in long-term care homes when a “low risk” staff member tested positive to the virus, saying it was to avoid being “overly cautious” and unnecessarily imposing “severe” outbreak restrictions on residents. Provincial Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry was responding to an investigation in the South China Morning Post on Thursday which revealed that at least 42 Vancouver care homes that employed this strategy since November had failed to contain the virus. More than 1,000 people became infected during these belatedly declared outbreaks, and...