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The elements fit easily in existing fixtures and infrastructure.
“We have a lot of LED and fluorescent fixtures, and the neat thing that Healthe has done is make these systems so easy to retrofit,” said Barry Galbraith, the director of manufacturing for Nature’s Path Foods. “It’s so easy I think we got it done in just a couple of hours.”
12 a.m. – B.C. CDC reports more exposures on flights in and out of Vancouver
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is reporting COVID-19 exposures on 12 international flights since Dec. 21 – with none that arrived from the U.K. Go here for the full list.
There has been exposures on 46 domestic flights into and out of Vancouver since Dec. 21 – with six on Dec. 31.
12 a.m. – B.C. health officials announce 2,211 new cases, 45 more deaths
British Columbia recorded 2,211 new cases of COVID-19 since Dec. 31 and 45 more people have died, for a total of 946 fatalities since the start of the pandemic.
There have been a total of 54,201 cases of COVID-19 in B.C. with 6,823 considered active cases.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health minister, said 24,139 British Columbians have been vaccinated.
Henry called the province’s vaccination rollout a “monumental task.”
LOCAL RESOURCES for COVID-19 information
Here are a number of information and landing pages for COVID-19 from various health and government agencies.
• B.C. COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool
• Vancouver Coastal Health – Information on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
• HealthLink B.C. – Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page
• B.C. Centre for Disease Control – Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Government of Canada – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update
• World Health Organization – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
–with files from The Canadian Press
