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| Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix provided an update on the COVID-19 coronavirus this afternoon |
Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, along with Health Minister Adrian Dix provided for their daily COVID-19 update on Thursday afternoon, providing notes on seven new case files in the Province, which brings the British Columbia total to 53 since the first outbreak was reported back in late January.
“Three cases are connected to the Hollyburn House Retirement Residence, three cases are travel-related and one is a community case.
“The three individuals are connected to the Hollyburn House Retirement Residence in West Vancouver include case 48, a male in his 40s and case 49, a female in her 40s, both of whom are health-care workers at Hollyburn.
Case 47 is a man in his 90s, a resident. Public health teams are on site and actively working to investigate and contain potential transmission to other residents and workers. The outbreak at this facility is linked to the outbreak at Lynn Valley Care Centre.
“Case 50 is a man in his 40s who returned from travel in the United Kingdom and lives in the Vancouver Coastal Health region.
“Case 51 is a man in his 40s.
Case 52 is a woman in her 40s. Both cases 51 and 52 live in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and are returning from a group trip to Egypt.
“Case 53 is a man in his 50s and is a community case identified through laboratory surveillance. He is self-isolating at his home in the Vancouver Coastal Health region."
The Province also issued guidance for mass gatherings in British Columbia and those planning travels outside of the province during the upcoming Spring Break:
“With the increasing transmission of COVID-19 at mass gatherings and events, in addition to the escalating risk of community transmission, we must do our best to slow transmission of COVID-19 and protect our communities.
Our schools and our workplaces are operating safely, and we want to keep it that way.
We are recommending against all non-essential travel outside of Canada, including to the United States. Effective today, anyone who chooses to travel outside of Canada will be asked to stay away from work or school for 14 days upon their return. We know that this is a voluntary measure, but it is our expectation that people will follow this direction as part of their civic duty.
Effective today, we also directing all event organizers to cancel any gathering larger than 250 people. This includes indoor and outdoor sporting events, conferences, meetings, religious gatherings or other similar events. This threshold has been selected, as it is much easier to maintain important social distancing to prevent transmission of COVID-19."
There was also further guidance on themes of sick leave for employees, testing protocols and the economic and social impact that the virus will have.
The full statement from the province along with links towards further information can be reviewed here.
The BC Centre for Disease control has some valuable Coronavirus notes related to COVID-19 you can explore that information here.
Federal Government site
British Columbia Government site
The World Health Organization website also offers up the latest advisories on the global situation.
With no cases of COVID-19 recorded in Northern BC to this point, for the most part, Northern Health is defaulting to the provincial information flow.
You can review our archive of past statements and local information here.
For notes from across Canada and British Columbia we have been archiving the latest items through our political portal Darcy McGee
Ottawa Observations
Victoria Viewpoints
For items of interest from Northern Health see our archive page here.
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