The B.C. Ministry of Health has reported just 8 new test-positive cases of novel coronavirus in the province today, bringing the total number cases in B.C. to 2,232 people.
In total, 849 of these cases are in the Vancouver Coastal Region, 1,031 in Fraser Health, 124 on Vancouver Island, 177 in Interior Health and 51 in Northern Health region.
The majority of active cases remaining are linked to the known cluster outbreaks described below.
There are now a total of 78 people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19, 21 of whom are in critical care – ICU or acute care units — showing a plateau in hospitalizations after a consistent period of decline.
Sadly, four new deaths were reported today and the death toll is now at 121 in total across the province.
In good news, a total of 1,472 people have now recovered from novel coronavirus in B.C.
Outbreaks
There is one new outbreak at a long term care facility in Vancouver Coastal Health region and a total of seventeen long term care facility outbreaks have been declared over.
In total, 22 long term care and acute care facilities have active outbreaks. This now includes 271 residents and 171 staff members who have tested positive for the virus. 442
The outbreak at the Lynn Valley Care Centre ,where 20 people died of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, has now been declared over.
The coronavirus outbreak at the Mission Institute federal correctional facility continues to have 134 people who have tested positive for COVID-19, including 121 inmates and 13 staff.
The outbreak at a Vancouver chicken processing and packaging plant, United Poultry Company, has 35 employees who tested positive for COVID-19.
Its sister plant, the Superior Poultry processing plant in Coquitlam now has 55 test-positive cases of patients who have contracted the virus — an increase of two cases since the last report.
There continues to be seven people who tested positive for COVID-19 linked to the Fraser Valley Speciality Poultry outbreak.
A total of 15 people returning to B.C. from the Kearl Lake oil sands project in Alberta have also tested positive for the virus, and there are additional family members of those workers who have also tested positive.
Island Health region
Specific data for the Vancouver Island Health region shows that there are 124 total cases of COVID-19 in the area.
BCCDC data shows that as of May 4th, 105 people have recovered in the Island Health region and there have now been four virus-related deaths in total.
This means there are now 15 active cases in the region.
Three people with COVID-19 are currently hospitalized.
Thus far, there have been 96,517 novel coronavirus tests conducted across B.C., 14,490 of which were done in the Island Health region.
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The BCCDC has set up a 2019 novel coronavirus telephone information line at 1-833-784-4397 for those who have further questions about this disease.
Anyone concerned that they may have been exposed to, or are experiencing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, should contact their primary care provider, local public health office, or call 8-1-1.
The Province has also created the 1-888-COVID-19 line to connect British Columbians needing non-medical information about the coronavirus pandemic.
As of the time of publication, the total number of COVID-19 patients worldwide has risen to 3,714,817.
Over 257,200 people have died from the illness and 1,235,513 have made a full recovery.
