{"id":25834,"date":"2020-12-07T21:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=25834"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:43:16","slug":"doctors-orders-no-christmas-or-new-years-eve-gatherings-in-b-c-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/doctors-orders-no-christmas-or-new-years-eve-gatherings-in-b-c-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor&#8217;s orders: No Christmas or New Year&#8217;s Eve gatherings in B.C. this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Christmas dinners or New Year's parties with people outside of household members in BC this year. The provincial health officer has extended until Jan. 8 the public health orders banning all events, adult team sports and limiting close contacts to household members only.\u00a0 Dr. Bonnie Henry says COVID-19 case counts are starting to show signs of leveling off, but not enough to lift restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Bonnie Henry:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25834-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-HENRY-orders-extended-to-january.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-HENRY-orders-extended-to-january.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-HENRY-orders-extended-to-january.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Henry has allowed an exemption, after coming under fire from charitable organizations. Now those groups will be allowed to run drive-through and drop-off donations of food and toys. BC's Minister of Health is anticipating push-back from faith groups, unhappy with a ban on in-person religious services. Adrian Dix has appointed a mediator, to consult with faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Dix:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25834-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-DIX-faith-leaders-talks-long-clip.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-DIX-faith-leaders-talks-long-clip.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-DIX-faith-leaders-talks-long-clip.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>As well, faith groups that were planning drive-in services will be able to hold them. Henry's amended orders will now allow drive-in events, limited to 50 cars, with no mingling outside of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are 9,380 active cases of COVID-19 in BC. There are 359 people in hospital with the virus, and intensive care hospital beds are running at between 60 and 78 per cent of capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no Christmas dinners or New Year&#8217;s parties with people outside of household members in BC this year. The provincial health officer has extended until Jan. 8 the public health orders banning all events, adult team sports and limiting close contacts to household members only.\u00a0 Dr. Bonnie Henry says COVID-19 case counts are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":22049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,223],"tags":[488,3952,2954,3953,3954,3678],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25834"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=25834"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=25834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}