COVID-19 is gaining momentum online.Vancouver Island resident Christian Stapff is behind the petition urging Premier John Horgan to shut the province’s borders to non-essential travel for one month.Stapff, a school teacher with the Vancouver Island West school district, said he’s worried about new variants of COVID-19, and credits Western Australia’s restrictions for helping to curb the spread of the virus there.Dr.
Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, studies the role of travel bans and viruses and agrees with tightening travel restrictions as outlined in the petition.She said different strains of COVID-19 are circulating and there is “definitely a connection” between.