B.C. health officials report 132 new COVID-19 cases, 3 new cases in Island Health

B.C. health officials report 132 new COVID-19 cases, 3 new cases in Island Health
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Health Minister Adrian Dix and Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry provide an update on COVID-19 on September 10, 2020.

B.C. health officials say there have been 132 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours, including three new cases in Island Health.

Of the three new cases in Island Health, one is on southern Vancouver Island and two are on central Vancouver Island.

There are 10 active cases in Island Health: six on southern Vancouver Island and four on central Vancouver Island.

Island Health has now had 190 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Of those cases, 175 have recovered and there have been five deaths. There are currently no COVID-19 hospitalizations in Island Health.

Island Health's COVID-19 numbers as of Sept. 11 (Island Health)

Island Health’s COVID-19 numbers as of Sept. 11 (Island Health)

Adrian Dix, B.C. Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, say the province has now had a total of 6,962 cases since the start of the pandemic. Henry and Dix released Friday’s numbers in a statement.

There are 1,461 active cases of COVID-19 in the province (up 49 from Sept. 10), 3,198 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases (up 89 from Sept. 10) and 5,273 people who tested positive have recovered.

Forty-nine people in B.C. are hospitalized with COVID-19 (up seven from Sept 10), 10 of whom are in intensive care (down four from Sept. 10).

No new COVID-19 deaths were reported on Friday. The B.C. death toll remains at 213.

Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 2,419 cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 3,600 in the Fraser Health region, 190 in the Island Health region, 465 in the Interior Health region, 204 in the Northern Health region and 84 cases of people who reside outside of Canada.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Evergreen Hamlets long-term care facility in Fraser Health. In total, 14 long-term care or assisted-living facilities and three acute-care facilities have active outbreaks.

Those facilities are:

  • Holy Family long-term care facility (second outbreak) in Vancouver Coastal Health
  • Point Grey Private Hospital long-term care facility in Vancouver Coastal Health
  • Royal Arch Masonic Home long-term care facility (second outbreak) in Vancouver Coastal Health
  • Bear Creek Villa independent-living facility in Fraser Health
  • Cherington Place long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • Czorny Alzheimer Centre long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • Evergreen Hamlets long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • George Derby Centre long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • Kin Village assisted-living facility in Fraser Health
  • Milieu Children and Family Services Society community-living facility in Fraser Health
  • MSA Manor long-term care facility (second outbreak) in Fraser Health
  • New Vista Care Home long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • Normanna long-term care facility in Fraser Health
  • Rideau Retirement Centre independent-living facility in Fraser Health

There have been no new community outbreaks.

“In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, our strength – as a province, as communities and as individual people – has been in all of us working together as one,” Dix and Henry said in Friday’s statement.

“We know COVID-19 has not been without challenge and loss. But we are working each day to find the balance of keeping new cases low and slow to protect those who are most vulnerable, while keeping our communities going.

“There are thousands upon thousands of people across British Columbia who are doing their part to protect our province. We thank you for all that you have done and all that you continue to do.

“We have demonstrated kindness and compassion in the face of adversity and challenge, and this resilience will give us the strength for what lies ahead. Let’s continue to stand strong against our common foe that is COVID-19.”

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) cases in B.C. from January to July 2020.

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 (CDC) here.

One of the latest public exposures is Air Canada flight  195 from Toronto to Victoria on Sept. 5. The affected rows are one through four but anyone on a domestic flight with a COVID-19 case should self-monitor for symptoms for 14 days, the BC CDC says.

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 3:42 p.m. PDT on Sept. 11, 2020:

There are 135,625 confirmed cases in Canada (0 presumptive, 135,625 confirmed including 9,163 deaths, 119,669 resolved)

  • Quebec: 64,463 confirmed (including 5,774 deaths, 56,843 resolved)
  • Ontario: 44,068 confirmed (including 2,813 deaths, 39,598 resolved)
  • Alberta: 15,415 confirmed (including 253 deaths, 13,718 resolved)
  • British Columbia: 6,962 confirmed (including 213 deaths, 5,273 resolved)
  • Saskatchewan: 1,688 confirmed (including 24 deaths, 1,598 resolved)
  • Manitoba: 1,393 confirmed (including 16 deaths, 1,090 resolved)
  • Nova Scotia: 1,086 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,019 resolved)
  • Newfoundland and Labrador: 269 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved)
  • New Brunswick: 193 confirmed (including 2 deaths, 188 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

According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Medicine, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide is now over 28.2 million. More than 911,000 deaths have been reported.

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