After two years of the pandemic, several? provinces in Canada start to drop the vaccine passport. According to the CBC news recent article “Quebec announces plan to drop the vaccine passport by March 14” by Laura Marchand. Will this action bring an end to the pandemic?
On Date, the Quebec government will drop its vaccine passport requirement for all public spaces by March 14. Health Minister Christian Dubé explained the decision at a news conference, saying the COVID-19 situation in the province has improved enough to gradually ease the measure. As of Wednesday, Quebecers will no longer need to show a vaccine passport to enter liquor and cannabis stores as well as larger retail outlets. But the proof of vaccination will still be required for domestic rail and air travel, and masks will also still be required in all public indoor spaces in the province.
Quebec’s interim director of public health, Dr. Luc Boileau, said a two-dose vaccine passport was less effective in the face of the Omicron variant. By then, Boileau explained, this wave of the pandemic should be over, and the vaccine passport would have limited uses.
After dropping the vaccine passport, will it bring the end to the pandemic or stick around as the seasonal endemic. The province government try to drop the vaccine passport based on the hospitalizations continuing a downward trend and a total of 2.4 million people have received a booster shot so far. Thousands of vaccines continue to be administered every day in B.C. So, it is not necessary to keep the vaccine passport.
According to the CBC news article “B.C. lifts most COVID-19 restrictions as long as masks and vaccine cards are used” by Courtney Dickson. Bonnie Henry said she expects changes to be made to COVID-19 guidelines in school settings “sooner than later.” She said teams are working to make schools as normal as possible for students, parents, and staff.Henry said dropping the restrictions marks the transition to a long-term COVID-19 strategy and said the goal is to live with the virus without it disrupting other aspects of life.
The people in British Columbia should be able to get back to normal because the government in British Columbia got enough experience to deal with the COVID-19 and the people also know how to live with the virus. If the hospitalizations can keep going down, the government should be able to drop most of the rules as soon as possible.
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B.C. lifts most COVID-19 restrictions as long as masks and vaccine cards are used
Quebec announces plan to drop the vaccine passport by March 14