COVID-19 order meant to curb a surge in cases.The two-week order bans social gatherings with people outside one’s household, suspends indoor group physical activities and freezes competitive team sports where physical distancing can’t be maintained.
B.C. bans all social gatherings, indoor group physical activities in Lower Mainland amid surging COVID cases It applies to most of the Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health regions — where new case numbers have dwarfed other parts of the province.It also comes days before Diwali, the Nov.
14 festival of light that is a key annual celebration for tens of thousands of the region’s South Asian residents.Vancouver’s Diwali Fest — like the city’s pride parade — had already pivoted to an online.