British Columbia Loosens Travel and Other Restrictions
May 25, 2021 ctn_admin
CTVNEWS – The B.C. government has relaxed several of the tough COVID-19 rules that residents have been living under for weeks – and laid out a rough timeline for returning to a “more normal life” in the months ahead.
Under the provincial restart plan unveiled Tuesday, British Columbians are welcome to meet a few friends at a restaurant and dine indoors, host a small number of visitors inside their home, and travel for recreational purposes within their own designated travel zone.
Those and other loosened rules are effective immediately, officials said.
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Royce Chwin, President and CEO of Tourism Vancouver, told Canadian Travel News that the plan gives the B.C. tourism industry a badly needed road map.
“We all work on deadlines, goals, strategies, measurables, outcomes,” he said. “We were in purgatory.”
Chwin said he’s more optimistic about the summer than he has been in a year or so. But he said that optimism is measured due to outbreaks in other parts of the country, including Manitoba.
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