Nine new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths in B.C.

B.C. health officials are reporting nine new cases of COVID-19 Thursday (June 4).

In her briefing Thursday, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she will now divide new cases reported between those who have tested positive and those considered epidemiologically-linked. In today’s report, five people tested positive and four were linked to other cases.

This is how the total of 2,632 are distributed through the province:

909 (Vancouver Coastal)
1,334 (Fraser Health)
130 (Vancouver Island)
195 (Interior Health) (no change)
64 (Northern Health)

Active cases are down to 201 Thursday, including 31 people hospitalized and six in intensive or critical care.

The number of people considered recovered from the virus is 2,265, or 86 per cent of the total cases.

There are no new health facility outbreaks Thursday, but one new community outbreak, at the Beresford Warming Centre in Burnaby, where there are three confirmed cases.

No new deaths were recorded, leaving the province’s death toll at 166.

There are no new or active cases in the Interior Health region.

New data shows the majority of B.C.’s cases have been to residents between the ages of 30 to 60, which Henry said reflects the working population including health care workers.

About 68 per cent of the fatal cases (113) have been people over the age of 80.

Slightly more women have got Covid, but more men have died (100 to 64)

“This is something we’ve seen in many other countries. We still do not have all the answers [biological reasons] to that yet,” said Henry.

Henry said her new mantra is ‘minimize, manage and modify.’

“Minimize the number of new cases; we have to quickly manage cases, and we need to modify measures as needed which may be opening up things more or looking at different ways of doing things,” Henry concluded.