As people are asked not to partake in any unnecessary travel, there won’t be an outright ban on inter-provincial transportation.

During Tuesday’s briefing Henry was asked about whether any thought has been put towards shutting down the Alberta-BC border. She says it’s not something that she has the authority to do, but it is also not something that she believes is necessary at this point in time.

“Alberta has very similar concerns and my colleagues in Alberta have been talking about this. We have been talking about this across the country,” she said. “And really the pandemic that we’re experiencing is very similar to what’s happening in Alberta and I think all of us are taking very similar measures.”

Henry encourages everyone in B.C. to do what we need to do and the same message will also be delivered to people in Alberta.

She was also asked about what things are going to look like when restrictions because of COVID-19 start to be lifted. Henry says the province is closely monitoring what is happening with other countries around the world that are beginning go through that process.

She says that we are in for a bit of a ride on this and we won’t be to go back to the way things were in January right away.

“Until we have either enough people in the population that are immune to this, which we absolutely don’t want to happen all at once because that means a number of people getting sick and overwhelming of our health care system,” Henry said.

“That’s what we’re focusing on right now. But we will have a period of time where this, hopefully, will wane.”

She says officials will be stepping up and allowing people to do some of the activities that they’ve been doing.

“But, then we need to monitor very carefully and if we start to see transmission in the community again, particularly as we go into the fall, we will need to look at what are the measures that are most important that help reduce those chains of transmission again.”