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    B.C. to allow 10 to gather outdoors

    Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Mar, 2021 11:16 PM
    • B.C. to allow 10 to gather outdoors

    British Columbia's provincial health officer is allowing outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people.

    Dr. Bonnie Henry says restrictions on indoor gatherings and rules for restaurants, bars, retail stores and other venues remain in place.

    Provincial health orders prohibit social gatherings of any size at residences beyond those in a household, which meant no gatherings in backyards or elsewhere on someone's property.

    Henry is also restricting liquor sales at bars and restaurants on St. Patrick's Day from 8 p.m. to the following day at 9 a.m.

    She says while the infection curve of the pandemic is trending down on Vancouver Island and in the Interior and Northern health regions, COVID-19 is still circulating in communities, particularly in the Lower Mainland.

    She announced 569 new cases today and three more deaths, pushing the death toll in the province to 1,397.

    B.C. has administered more than 360,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far.

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