BC has confirmed 66 additional positive tests for the new coronavirus COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing the provincial total to 725.
The province has 66 COVID-19 patients in hospital, 26 of them in the ICU.
Regional totals now stand at:
- 359 in Vancouver Coastal Health
- 241 in Fraser Health
- 52 in Island Health
- 62 in Interior Health
- 11 in Northern Health
The number of deaths in the province remained unchanged at 14.
There are now outbreaks at nine long-term care centres, the most serious of which has been at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver, where four additional residents and three workers have tested positive in the last 24 hours.
BC has also set up a 211 hotline for seniors in need of assistance who can fail the number to be paired with volunteers.
Health care workers are now being permanently assigned to care homes to try and slow the outbreaks.
Earlier Thursday, BC Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth unveiled sweeping new measures under the province’s state of emergency due to COVID-19.
More to come…
