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B.C. government to outline new COVID-19 travel restrictions

The B.C. government is set to outline the new travel restrictions going into effect around the province Friday.

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth will hold a press conference Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.

It will be streamed live above and on the Global BC Facebook page.

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B.C. Premier John Horgan first announced Monday that travel restrictions will take effect across the province on Friday, asking everyone to stay in their health authority and only travel outside for essential reasons.

Farnworth said the government is looking at using periodic roadblocks only and that police would not be randomly stopping people on roads.

He confirmed Wednesday that the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions will be considered one region when the new rules go into effect on Friday.

Farnworth said this means drivers travelling within Metro Vancouver will not be subjected to any road checks.

“So you’re likely to see something at the ferries, for example, or at the other obvious location is when you head into the Interior just before Hope if you were gonna take Highway 1 or the Hope-Princeton or the Coquihalla,” Farnworth said.

More to come.

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