COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

Last updated: April 20, 2021

On this page:

• Orders and notices
• Comprehensive guidance
• Letters
• Archived orders

Orders and notices

You must follow PHO orders.

Orders

• Industrial Camps – April 13, 2021 (PDF, 407KB)
  • Delegation: Industrial Camps – June 9, 2020 (PDF, 216KB)
• Industrial Projects Within the Northern Health Authority Region – April 13, 2021 (PDF, 407KB)
• Delegation: Workplace Closures – April 11, 2021 (PDF, 319KB)
• Gatherings and Events – March 31, 2021 (PDF, 465KB)
  • Extension of the Variance Suspension: Indoor Worship Services on Four Days – April 19, 2021 (PDF, 208KB)
  • Requirements: Indoor Individual Exercise – March 31, 2021 (PDF, 352KB)
  • Variance: Outdoor Worship Services – March 23, 2021 (PDF, 250KB)
  • Read related Public Heath guidelines
• Food and Liquor Serving Premises and Retail Establishments which Sell Liquor – March 31, 2021 (PDF, 377KB)
• Regulated and Unregulated Health Professionals SARS-CoV-2 Immunization Order – March 24, 2021 (PDF, 458KB)
• Emergency Medical Assistants SARS-CoV-2 Immunization Order – March 18, 2021 (PDF, 289KB)
• Agricultural Temporary Foreign Workers – March 14, 2021 (PDF, 279KB)
• Visitation and Visitor Appeal and Review – February 5, 2021 (PDF, 289KB)
  • Read related Ministry of Health guidance
• Workplace Safety – December 16, 2020 (PDF, 314KB)
• Health Authority Regulated Health Professionals SARS-CoV-2 Swabbing – November 16, 2020 (PDF, 225KB)
• Midwives and Certified Practice Speech Language Pathologists SARS-CoV-2 Swabbing – November 16, 2020 (PDF, 269KB)
• British Columbia Emergency Health Services SARS-CoV-2 Swabbing – November 16, 2020 (PDF, 265KB)
• Registered Nurse and Registered Psychiatric Nurse Public Health Pharmacotherapy – September 16, 2020 (PDF, 227KB)
• Overnight Camps for Children and Youth – May 29, 2020 (PDF, 245KB)
• Workplace Safety Plans - May 14, 2020 (PDF, 188KB)
• Licensed Practical Nurse Swabbing - May 7, 2020 (PDF, 172KB)
• Long-Term Care Facility Staff Assignment – April 15, 2020 (PDF, 274KB)
  • Amendment: Deployment and redeployment of staff - October 26, 2020 (PDF, 444KB)
• Travellers and Employers – April 14, 2020 (PDF, 365KB)
  • Delegation: Travellers – April 14, 2020 (PDF, 255KB)
• Health Care Labour Adjustment (COVID-19) – April 10, 2020 (PDF, 695KB)
• Information Collection from Long Term Care Facility Staff – March 26, 2020 (PDF, 214KB)
• Federal Quarantine Order – August 30, 2020 (PDF, 428KB)
  • Government of Canada, Exceptions to Requirement to Quarantine, section 6

Notices

• Notice Declaring Overdose Public Health Emergency – April 14 2016 (PDF, 37.6KB)
• Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) – August 26, 2020 (PDF, 70.8KB)
• Notice Declaring COVID-19 Public Health Emergency – March 17, 2020 (PDF, 148KB)

Guidance

Guidelines

• Ministry of Health – Overview of Visitors in Long-Term Care and Seniors’ Assisted Living – April 1, 2021 (PDF, 672KB)

Comprehensive guidance

The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is the best source for comprehensive COVID-19 information and guidance. 

• Information for health-care professionals
• Current COVID-19 data and modelling

If you are an employer and need guidance on safe operations, WorkSafeBC is the best source of information. 

Letters

• Rapid Point of Care Testing – March 16, 2021 (PDF, 195KB)
• Testing Prior to Travel – July 30, 2020 (PDF, 77KB)
• Testing in Industry – June 17, 2020 (PDF, 193KB)
• Community Living BC: Guidance for COVID-19 – April 2, 2020 (PDF, 46KB)
• First Responders – March 18, 2020 (PDF, 654KB)
• Social Sector Stakeholders – March 18, 2020 (PDF, 130KB)

Archived orders