Provincial Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry says we are still in the early stages in our fight against COVID-19.

“I think it’s really important to recognize that we are not at the end of our beginning yet. We’re maybe part way through it. We are not yet anywhere at the end of what we’re going to do with this. And normal is going to look quite different for some time” says Henry.

Henry says it has heard of people getting frustrated and angry and we have to realize that this is a manifestation of anxiety and fear that we have about not knowing our future. “This is a time where we really need to stand together, to support each other, to respond to anger with kindness. To make sure that we can support each other as we go through the coming weeks and months because we are all in this together.”

Henry says she doesn’t foresee any changes to what we are over the next three weeks. “I do have great concerns about things going back to so-called normal when we know the amount of destruction and suffering that this has caused around the world and I can’t even begin to think that we would allow that sort of return to a practice that puts people at risk again.”