Minister of Health Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, say there are 100 new COVID-19 cases in B.C., including one new case in Island Health.
B.C. has now had a total of 6,691 cases since the start of the pandemic. This includes 185 cases in the Island Health region, 2,285 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 3,482 in the Fraser Health region, 462 in the Interior Health region, 193 in the Northern Health region and 84 cases of people who reside outside of Canada (visitors and temporary foreign workers).
The one new case in Island Health is in southern Vancouver Island. There are six active cases in the health authority: four on southern Vancouver Island, two on central Vancouver Island and none on northern Vancouver Island. There are no COVID-19 hospitalizations in Island Health.
Island Health’s COVID-19 numbers as of Sept. 9, 2020 (Island Health)
There are a total of 1,378 active cases of COVID-19 in the province (down eight from Sept. 8), 3,101 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases (up 38 from Sept. 8) and 5,086 people who tested positive have recovered.
Thirty-seven people are in hospital with COVID-19 (an increase of five from Sept. 8), 15 of whom are in intensive care (an increase of three from Sept. 8).
No new COVID-19 deaths were reported on Wednesday. The B.C. COVID-19 death toll remains at 213.
“There have been no new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 213 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are two new health-care facility outbreaks, one at Royal Arch Masonic Home long-term care facility in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and one at the Milieu Children and Family Services Society community living facility in the Fraser Health region.
A total of 12 long-term care or assisted-living facilities and three acute-care facilities have active outbreaks. There are no new community outbreaks.
“This fall and winter, we will be facing two health challenges – the usual respiratory season as well as COVID-19. What this means is that we have to put measures in place now to ensure our health-care centres, communities and all of us are ready for what may be ahead,” Henry and Dix said in Wednesday’s statement about the COVID-19 numbers.
Earlier Wednesday, Henry, Dix and B.C. Premier John Horgan unveiled the province’s fall and winter pandemic plan, which involves ramping up COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and a campaign to administer almost two million flu shots.
The province’s health officials say they have prepared the province for COVID-19 scenarios ranging from low to exceptional outbreaks and they are confident the health system can meet the challenges.
B.C. has posted detailed information about the geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases from January to July 2020. This map will be continually updated, according to B.C. health officials.
Geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases in B.C. from January to July 2020. (Province of BC)
Island Health’s COVID-19 data breaks down North, Central and South Island case counts and lists the number of days since any new lab-diagnosed cases. You can find the data here along with any public exposures.
To see B.C.’s COVID-19 numbers by day and health authority, along with testing numbers and recoveries, visit the B.C. COVID-19 dashboard. The numbers are updated at 4:30 p.m. PT each weekday.
To see a list of all provincial public COVID-19 exposures in the province, including links to exposures listed on health authority websites, visit the B.C. Centre for Disease Control website here.
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:18 p.m. PDT on Sept. 9, 2020:
- Quebec: 64,056 confirmed (including 5,771 deaths, 56,400 resolved)
- Ontario: 43,685 confirmed (including 2,813 deaths, 39,332 resolved)
- Alberta: 15,191 confirmed (including 248 deaths, 13,358 resolved)
- British Columbia: 6,691 confirmed (including 213 deaths, 5,086 resolved)
- Saskatchewan: 1,670 confirmed (including 24 deaths, 1,587 resolved)
- Manitoba: 1,365 confirmed (including 16 deaths, 945 resolved)
- Nova Scotia: 1,086 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,018 resolved)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 269 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved)
- New Brunswick: 192 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 186 resolved)
- Prince Edward Island: 55 confirmed (including 44 resolved)
- Yukon: 15 confirmed (including 15 resolved)
- Repatriated Canadians: 13 confirmed (including 13 resolved)
- Northwest Territories: 5 confirmed (including 5 resolved)
- Nunavut: No confirmed cases
Total COVID-19 cases in Canada: 134,293 (0 presumptive, 134,293 confirmed including 9,155 deaths, 118,254 resolved)
According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Medicine, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide is now more than 27.6 million, with more than 899,000 deaths.
With files from The Canadian Press
Alexa Huffman
