B.C. Covid update Monday: 358 new cases

Oct 5, 2020 | 3:42 PM Pete McIntyre

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said there were 358 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend, including 13 within Interior Health. Henry says there were 130 new cases on Saturday (Oct. 3), 108 on Sunday and 120 on Monday.

That brings the total of all recorded cases in B.C. to 9,739, spread throughout the province as follows:

3,580 – Vancouver Coastal (up by 140)
4,980 – Fraser Health (up by 189)
220 – Island Health (up by 11)
548 – Interior Health (up by 13)
322 – Northern Health (up by 4)
89 – Reside outside of Canada (up by 1)

Henry reports 1,353 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., including 66 people who are in hospital, 16 of whom are in critical or intensive care.

The Interior has 19 active cases with two people in hospital.

There are now seven cases linked to an outbreak at Calvary Chapel in Kelowna last month. The latest identified cases linked to this outbreak are two individuals who were tested on Oct. 2 and did not attend church after Sept. 13. All identified cases and their contacts are self-isolating.

Four more people have died of the virus – three of them in Fraser Health and one in Vancouver Coastal. That brings the provincial death toll to 242.

The number of those under active public health monitoring due to COVID-19 exposure is now 3,010.

A total of 8,115 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 83 per cent of all recorded cases.