There are now about 1,400 community pharmacies in B.C. distributing COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits free of charge to eligible British Columbians. These kits are rapid antigen tests that work by detecting the antigens (proteins) of the virus that causes…
(Vancouver) Feb. 10, 2022 — The BC Pharmacy Association is calling on British Columbians to make their booster appointments after a new poll found more than half of those who have already received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine are not planning to…
B.C. has recently updated its public health orders to authorize regulated pharmacy technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Pharmacy technicians are eligible for PharmaCare’s administration fee, until the end of B.C.’s COVID-19 public health…
Pharmacist Leanne Dale was on the way back to Vancouver from Penticton when severe weather washed away parts of Highway 1 and locked off access to the community of Hope, B.C. Dale, who works at The Pharmacy Yaletown in downtown Vancouver, said she…
We are now approaching the two-year mark since the COVID-19 pandemic came into our lives. On March 12, 2020 the BC Pharmacy Association staff team headed out to work from home until things settled down — we assumed this would have taken a couple of…
