COVID cases jump to 335 for Wednesday across British Columbia, seven new reported in Northern Health Region

Another 335 British Columbians have been reported to have contracted COVID-19, they are among the 3,10 active cases currently on the books in the province.

Those daily totals, as well as a look at how clusters can become outbreaks among the themes provided today in as statement released by Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.

“Today, we are reporting 335 new cases, including seven epi-linked cases, for a total of 16,135 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 3,120 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, 7,133 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases, and 12,659 people who tested positive have recovered. 

Currently, 92 individuals are hospitalized with COVID-19, 25 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.

 There has been one new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 273 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Across British Columbia the totals by Health Authority Region area as follows:  5,097 cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 9,439 in the Fraser Health region, 274 in the Island Health region, 803 in the Interior Health region, 432 in the Northern Health region an increase seven of from yesterday. 

90 cases of COVID have been reported from people who reside outside of Canada. “

Towards how the province approaches the risk to British Columbians the two Public health Officials observed on themes of risk and clusters.

“Here in B.C., we have one COVID-19 curve because the risks are everywhere and no community or person is immune. The virus doesn’t recognize community boundaries or regional borders. 

As we have seen before, a small cluster in one region can quickly become an outbreak in another. That is why provincewide orders are in place throughout B.C. and why we all need to use our layers of protection – all the time. 

When transmission increases in one area, we focus our public health efforts to contain the further spread and ask everyone to step up their own efforts and preventive actions at the same time."

You can review the COVID-19 report for Wednesday here.   

The BC Centre for Disease control has some valuable Coronavirus notes related to COVID-19 you can explore that information here.

You can learn more about the outbreak from both the Province and the Federal government from the links below:

Federal Government site

British Columbia Government site

The World Health Organization website also offers up the latest advisories on the global situation.

More from  Northern Health can be reviewed here 

You can review our archive of past statements and local information here.

Local governments and organizations have also provided for increased awareness of COVID-19 issues, those past advisories  can be reviewed here.

For notes from across Canada and British Columbia we have been archiving the latest items through our political portal Darcy McGee

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