No new COVID cases in Interior, 105 in B.C.

B.C. is reporting 105 new COVID cases, with most of those in the Lower Mainland and six in northern B.C.

There are no new cases in the Interior and Island regions.

One more person has died of COVID in the Fraser region, bringing the total to 234.

The province’s total cases have surpassed 9,000, now at 9,013.

There are 1,268 active cases in the province, 3,337 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and 7,485 people who tested positive have recovered.

Currently, 69 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, with 20 of those in intensive or critical care.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Haro Park Centre long-term care facility in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. In total, 14 long-term care or assisted-living facilities and three acute-care facilities have active outbreaks.

There have been no new community outbreaks.

The province has extended the provincial state of emergency, allowing health and emergency management officials to continue to use extraordinary powers under the Emergency Program Act to support the pandemic response.

The state of emergency, which began on March 18, is extended through the end of the day on Oct. 13, 2020.

Case counts by health region:

• 3,286 Vancouver Coastal
• 4,594 Fraser
• 206 Island
• 531 Interior
• 309 Northern
• 87 people who reside outside Canada