As casinos in Alberta are allowed to reopen as of today, there’s still no timeline to reopen casinos in B.C.

Speaking to NL News, BC Lotteries Corporation interim CEO Greg Moore was asked if casinos in this province are any closer to reopening.

“Well we’re working really hard at BCLC with our service providers and putting together a full health and safety guideline, for all of our casinos around British Columbia. We are sending that information, working with the Attorney General, to assure that we can open safely.”

Moore says the BCLC needs to respect direction from health officials, and make sure the province as well as staff and players at casinos are confident going forward.

Casinos in B.C. were forced to shut down on March 17. Health officials say reopening casinos, bars and night clubs will be “complicated” and has given no timeline to reopen any.

Whenever casinos reopen in B.C., people who enter could be handed small bottles of sanitizer for personal use. Moore says that’s one of the measures being considered, as health and safety guidelines for casinos are being mapped out.

“Plexiglass between slot machines, even looking at how we manage the floor. So making sure that if there are slot machines that are close together, there’s either Plexiglass between them, or maybe every second machine is turned off to really create that distance between play.”

Moore also says once casinos do reopen, some card games won’t be available right away.

“We’ll wait for a little bit with that. When we do, we’ll be switching out the cards very frequently, we’ll be only using the chips once, and then they’ll be going through a sanitizing process and that sort of thing,” he says.

“So there really isn’t anything in the whole operation that we haven’t tried to lift up, and say ‘how can we make this as safe as possible?'”