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WEB POLL: Would you support a mandatory lockdown in B.C. to curb the spread of COVID-19?

Social gatherings are currently restricted to immediate household groups in the Vancouver area
Liam Harrap
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Fady Danial cuts Robert Bruce’s hair at a barbershop that has erected plastic shower curtains as a measure to help curb the spread of COVID-19, in Burnaby, B.C., on Saturday, November 7, 2020. British Columbia announced new public health measures for the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions on Saturday - including an order for people not to have social interactions outside their immediate household and a ban on indoor group physical activities for two weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Premier John Horgan said British Columbia could return to stricter lockdown measures if the latest efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the Lower Mainland are not successful.

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In the Vancouver area, social gatherings are currently restricted to immediate household groups.

The province set new records this week for daily cases with more than 1,000 over 48 hours.