Definition of Essential Travel
Today, BC announced under the Emergency Program Act an order restricting non-essential travel between certain regions of the province effective from April 23, 2021 until May 25, 2021. Thus, until May 25, 2021, Alert Bay Lodge can only accept reservations from people that live in the Vancouver Island Heath Authority region (VIHI) travelling for essential purposes. We are renting two of our four rooms only, one in the east wing and one in the west wing.
Non-essential travel includes:
- Vacations, weekend getaways and tourism activities
- Visiting family or friends for social reasons
- Recreation activities
Essential travel includes:
- Returning to your principal residence, moving or helping someone move
- Work, both paid and unpaid (volunteer)
- Commercial transportation of goods
- Getting health care or social services or helping someone get those services
- Court appearance, complying with a court order or parole check-in
- Shared custody agreement
- Child care services
- Attending school at a post-secondary institution
- Responding to a critical incident, like search and rescue operations
- Providing care to a person because of a psychological, behavioural or health condition, or a physical, cognitive or mental impairment
- Providing care or assistance to a person who is seriously ill, disabled or has a physical or cognitive impairment
- Visiting a resident (as an essential visitor) at:
- A community care facility licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act that provides long term care within the meaning of section 2 of the Residential Care Regulation
- A private hospital licensed under the Hospital Act
- A non-profit institution that has been designated as a hospital under the Hospital Act and is operated primarily for the reception and treatment of persons requiring extended care at a higher level than that generally provided in a private hospital licensed under the Hospital Act
- Attending a funeral
