BC Covid update Tuesday: 167 new cases

Oct 20, 2020 | 4:33 PM Pete McIntyre

New COVID-19 cases in B.C. have remained relatively stable the last few days.

The province reported 167 new cases Tuesday for a total of 11,854 since the pandemic started.

Thirteen (13) of the new cases are in Interior Health (IH) which has 47 active cases, two people in hospital with one of those in intensive care.

There are 1,688 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, 4,156 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and 9,871 people who tested positive have recovered.

Currently, 69 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, 18 in intensive or critical care.

There has been one new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 254 in B.C.

There have been three new health-care facility outbreaks at Evergreen Baptist Care Society, Good Samaritan Victoria Heights and Sunset Manor. The outbreaks at George Derby, Langley Lodge and Chartwell Crescent Gardens have been declared over. In total, 17 long-term care or assisted-living facilities and two acute-care facilities have active outbreaks.

There have been no new community outbreaks.

Case counts by health region:

Vancouver Coastal 4,175 (+29)
Fraser 6,366 (+122)
Island 244 (+1)
Interior 624 (+13)
Northern 357 (+2)
people who reside outside Canada 88 (same)