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“When cases surge exponentially, as they have in the past few weeks, the burden falls mostly on the people that power our health systems,” Dr. Etienne said. “For them, there is nothing mild about this Omicron wave.”

With infections reaching 4.8 million (a 31% drop from last week) but 33,000 new deaths, the PAHO Director said that the region remains in the grip of the latest COVID-19 wave and urged countries to harness the lessons learned from the pandemic so far as clinics and hospitals once again become full.

“Years of underinvestment in our health services, aging information systems and poor labor conditions made our health workers’ jobs challenging,” the Director said, highlighting that these disadvantages were only exacerbated by COVID-19.

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As outlined in the Financing Framework we are launching today, the ACT Accelerator requires 23 billion US dollars to save lives, address the threat of Omicron and prevent even more dangerous variants emerging.

That includes an urgent financing gap of 16 billion dollars for the ACT Accelerator itself, with the remaining 6.5 billion dollars to be self-financed by middle-income countries, supported by multilateral development banks.

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In follow-up to the notice given to health professionals in October 2021, the provincial health officer is finalizing, in consultation with all health professional colleges, an order that requires all regulated health professionals to be vaccinated by March 24, 2022, to work in their occupation in British Columbia.

The purpose of this provincial health officer order is to protect patients from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus by unvaccinated health professionals, as well as to minimize the number of people being hospitalized or dying because of the virus. This order will ensure patients have confidence they are protected in all health-care settings and will align with the existing requirements for health-care workers working in long-term, acute and community care.

The order provides the colleges the tools they need to collect information about the vaccination status of their registrants and to communicate to registrants who have not confirmed their vaccination status that they may not provide health services. Colleges must then follow up and investigate any instances where health professionals continue to provide health services not in compliance with the order.

Under the order, regulated health professionals who are vaccinated with one dose before March 24, 2022, may continue to work as long as they receive a second dose 28-35 days after their first dose.

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Truckers and other protesters started blocking Canada-bound traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, which links Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, and calling for an end to COVID-19 restrictions.
Speaking briefly with reporters on Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several MPs respond to Joël Lightbound's criticism over what the Liberal MP says is the federal government's divisive handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, for a response to the latest coroner's Toxic Drug Report. She will be joined by Dr. Ramneek Dosanjh, president of Doctors of BC; and Michael Sandler, CEO of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC.

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pecific actions the government will take in the coming months to build a stronger B.C. for everyone include:Ensuring B.C. workers do not get left behind by tying minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation;Protecting people buying homes in a volatile market by introducing a cooling-off period on home purchases;Helping prepare people for the jobs of the future with a generational commitment to develop the talent B.C. needs over the next 10 years to close the skills gap;Moving forward on reconciliation by working to implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act through an action plan drafted in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples;Recognizing British Columbians’ shared history by taking a major step towards establishing the first Chinese Canadian Museum in Canada and modernizing the Royal BC Museum;Bringing more certainty and reliability to child care by moving responsibility to the Ministry of Education;Improving management of B.C.’s land and resources by creating a new ministry to better support goals of reconciliation, economic development and environmental protection.

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Specific actions the government will take in the coming months to build a stronger B.C. for everyone include:

Ensuring B.C. workers do not get left behind by tying minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation;
Protecting people buying homes in a volatile market by introducing a cooling-off period on home purchases;
Helping prepare people for the jobs of the future with a generational commitment to develop the talent B.C. needs over the next 10 years to close the skills gap;
Moving forward on reconciliation by working to implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act through an action plan drafted in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples;
Recognizing British Columbians’ shared history by taking a major step towards establishing the first Chinese Canadian Museum in Canada and modernizing the Royal BC Museum;
Bringing more certainty and reliability to child care by moving responsibility to the Ministry of Education;
Improving management of B.C.’s land and resources by creating a new ministry to better support goals of reconciliation, economic development and environmental protection.

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Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Lana Popham, B.C.’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, have announced the Canada-BC Flood Recovery for Food Security Program, which will be delivered by the Government of British Columbia and will leverage the federal government’s AgriRecovery Framework and Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA).

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In a virtual news conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joined by Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson to make an announcement concerning early learning and child care in the province. Federal ministers Karina Gould (families, children and social development) and Dan Vandal (Prairies Economic Development Canada) also take part in the event.

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Last week, the Region of the Americas reported more than 7 million new COVID cases and more than 34,000 COVID-related deaths. However, the rise in infections seems to be slowing down in places hit earliest by the Omicron variant. Most of the new cases were reported in North America, which saw more than 4 million new infections.Surges continue across Central and South America, where Chile and Brazil posted record numbers of daily cases.Deaths increased for the fourth consecutive week in all subregions, showing an increase of nearly 33% over the previous week. In the Caribbean, deaths have more than doubled in Cuba, the Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda. Other islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe, are seeing COVID spread rapidly among young and unvaccinated people.

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