British Columbia will no longer require regulated health professionals to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status to their regulatory body, according to an order issued by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry last Friday.
The order, which was posted on the provincial health officer’s website, also drops the requirement for colleges to report vaccination rates of its members to the province.
The changes took effect just before midnight Friday.
“The collection and disclosure by the regulatory colleges of vaccination status information of registrants is no longer needed to support the pandemic response,” a spokesperson for Henry’s office said in a Monday emailed statement to CBC.
The vaccine mandate for employees in the public health-care system who work in hospitals, community care
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