The B.C. Ministry of Health has reported four new test-positive cases of novel coronavirus in the province today, bringing the total number cases in B.C. to 2,601 people.
In total, 904 of these cases are in the Vancouver Coastal Region, 1,311 in Fraser Health, 127 on Vancouver Island, 195 in Interior Health and 64 in Northern Health region.
The number of active cases continues to decline as there are now 207 in B.C.
There are now a total of 31 people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19, eight of whom are in critical care — ICU or acute care units — representing an increase in the number of people in critical care.
No new deaths were reported today, and the death toll remains at 165 in total across the province.
In good news, a total of 2,229 people have now recovered from novel coronavirus in B.C., representing approximately 86 per cent of all cases.
Outbreaks
Several health care system outbreaks have been declared over, including the ICU outbreak at Abbotsford Regional Hospital.
In total, there are eight long term care facilities that now have active ongoing outbreaks with 556 total cases.
Two new community outbreaks were reported today at offices in the Fraser Health Region. A number of community outbreaks have been declared over in the past week. The following outbreaks are currently ongoing:
- Two small outbreaks were reported at offices in the Fraser Health region.
- Mountain federal correctional institution in Fraser Health Region where two people have tested positive for COVID-19.
- Nature’s Touch, a frozen food processing plant in Abbotsford, where five people tested positive for the virus.
- The Oppenheimer Group, a fruit and vegetable processing plant in Coquitlam, has three cases.
- Seven people tested positive for COVID-19 at the Fraser Valley Speciality Poultry outbreak.
- A total of 17 people returning to B.C. from the Kearl Lake oil sands project in Alberta have tested positive for the virus, and there are an unknown number of family members of those workers who have also contracted the virus.
Island Health region
Specific data for the Vancouver Island Health region shows that there are 127 total cases of COVID-19 in the area.
BCCDC data shows that as of June 1, 121 people have recovered in the Island Health region and there have now been five virus-related deaths in total.
This means there continues to be just one active case in the region, and that patient is in hospital.
Thus far, there have been 146,432 novel coronavirus tests conducted across B.C., 22,120 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 6,449,153.
Over 380,600 people have died from the illness and 2,951,352 have made a full recovery.
