The B.C. Government will introduce legislation to bring in bubble zones around hospitals and schools during the ongoing fall legislature session.

Attorney General David Eby says work in still underway to see what could be done to prevent “aggressive” protesters who oppose vaccine cards and mandates from gathering in front of hospitals and schools.

“The Premier has been very clear about our government’s profound concern about the possibility of health workers or education workers or students being interfered with by protestors as they go about their important work every day,” he said, during a Friday afternoon press conference.

“My team is working very closely counsel to determine what the options are that are available for government and we taking this very seriously.”

Eby’s comments came one week after Premier John Horgan said the province was working on potentially creating those bubble zones.

“I don’t have any announcements about what approach we’ll be taking today but rest assured that government is preparing solutions to ensure that health workers and students and teachers and workers in schools are able to go about their business without interference,” he added.

On the first day of the fall session of the Legislature, Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister, Mike Farnworth, confirmed that legislation was coming, though it is not clear when it will be introduced in Victoria.

“We’re looking at what measures might be available to government to ensure this kind of thing does not happen,” Farnworth, who has called aggressive and violent anti-vaccine protesters “COVIDiots,” said last month. “Blocking hospitals and schools is just not acceptable.”

Protests at hospitals organized by people who don’t believe in the COVID vaccine have at times turned ugly as some health-care workers said they’ve been physically and verbally assaulted while coming to and leaving work.

Quebec passed legislation last month that would ban COVID-related protests within 50 metres of schools, daycares, health-care facilities, and vaccine clinics, while in Alberta, protesters will be banned from blocking access to hospitals under a new provincial regulation.

Last month, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix told NL News that the idea of protest bubble zones around hospitals has some merit.

While on the campaign trail, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau too said he would make it a crime to block access to hospitals and other health care facilities.