B.C.’s provincial health officer is calling reports that BC Ferries is experiencing high Easter weekend traffic amid the coronavirus pandemic “overblown”, but still urged people to avoid non-essential travel during the holiday.
Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters Saturday that she spoke with BC Ferries herself to confirm reports of lineups at terminals on both Vancouver Island and the mainland Thursday and Friday.
Some sailings had been reporting they were between 95 and 99 per cent full Thursday evening, although those numbers refer to the number of vehicle boardings rather than total passengers.
Henry said she was assured that ferries have significantly reduced capacity to help maintain physical distancing measures and that those caps would