B.C. Covid update: 234 new cases, 7 in Interior Health

Oct 29, 2020 | 3:45 PM Pete McIntyre

B.C.’s provincial health officer is urging residents to keep their Halloween activities to small groups, and to refrain from having parties.

Dr. Bonnie Henry noted the current province-wide order that limits the number of people who can visit in homes.

Henry’s comments were made after she announced 234 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, including seven in Interior Health.

The death toll has risen to 262 after one death in the Fraser Health region.

Henry said the victim was a woman in her 80s who attended a birthday party in a home with fewer than 10 people. One of the participants unknowingly had COVID-19 which infected several other people at the party including the victim.

There are 5,714 people under active public health monitoring due to exposures to known COVID-19 cases, and 11,448 people have fully recovered from the virus, 81 per cent of all reported cases.

Henry held her update from Surrey rather than Victoria, saying she wanted to show her support to health workers in the Fraser Health region, which has seen a disproportionately high volume of COVID-19 cases.

4,588 – Vancouver Coastal (up by 43)
8,036 – Fraser Health (up by 177)
256 – Vancouver Island (up by 3)
734 – Interior Health (up by 7)
406 – Northern Health (up by 7)
89 – Reside outside of Canada (up by 1)