Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry along with Health Minister Adrian Dix gave their daily update on Covid-19 cases.
There were 45 new test positive cases to report today bringing the total to 1336. There are now 130 test positive cases in Interior health with no additional cases to report in Northern Health. 226 cases are now reported in long term care homes. A total of 135 people have been hospitalized, 61 of those are in a critical care unit. Today there was 5 new deaths to report bringing the total to 48. The number of recovered in B.C. continues to rise as well seeing 838 people now considered fully recovered.
Henry says that one of the measures being put in is that everyone coming back from travel has to have an approved self-isolation plan. There will be a quarantine facility that the government runs in partnership with health authorities to allow people to self-isolate.
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