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By Veronica Beltran

COVID Update

11 new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Health, 998 in B.C.

Nov 9, 2020 | 3:23 PM

VICTORIA–998 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. since Saturday’s last update.

The new number of cases puts B.C.’s total of test-positive cases at 18,714. In Northern Health we saw an increase of 11 cases of virus for a total of 470.

Cases by Health Region:

• Vancouver Coastal Health: 5,579
• Fraser Health Region: 10,846
• Island Health: 298
• Interior Health: 863
• Northern Health: 470
• Outside Canada: 90

Five new deaths were reported bringing our Provincial total to 281. There are 4,891 active cases across all health authorities in the province. 9,179 people are under active public health monitoring for being exposed to a known case of the virus.

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133 people are in hospital of who 43 are in ICU. Two new health care outbreaks were reported, while three were declared over for a total of 37 active cases in the health care system.

“This latest action in our COVID-19 response is about putting the breaks on the virus.”–Dr. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer touched on the Orders she put in place over the weekend, including the two week Order in which residents of the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions are being asked to only have contact with those in their immediate household.

Dr. Henry said that the next two weeks are critical in order to break the virus’s chains of transmission and help lower the number of cases the province has recently seen a spike in.

13,425 people have recovered from the virus in B.C.

Photo Courtesy: Province of British Columbia, Flickr.