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By Veronica Beltran

COVID Update

Northern Health reports 2nd COVID-19 death, 366 new cases in B.C.

Sep 21, 2020 | 3:17 PM

VICTORIA—The north’s second COVID-19 death was reported this afternoon (Sept.21).

Provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry said that the additional death in the north was a person who had been in hospital for a while. B.C. reported a total of four deaths since Friday for a death toll of 227 people. Provincially, 366 new cases of COVID-19, including 7 epi-linked cases, since Friday were announced for a total of 8,208 test-positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

Cases by health region:

• Vancouver Coastal Health: 2,945
• Fraser Health: 4,211
• Island Health: 203
• Interior Health: 508
• Northern Health: 255
• People who reside outside of Canada: 86

Northern Health saw an increase of 11 cases since Friday for a total of 255.

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There are 1,987 active cases in the province, 3,233 people are under public health monitoring for being exposed to a known case of COVID-19. 60 people are in hospital and of those, 21 are in ICU. There is one new outbreak in the health care system, and one that’s been declared over. 813 people have fallen ill to COVID-19 in the health care system, 484 residents and 329 staff.

“We have been working with Elections B.C. since march…and have been working with them continuously.”—Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer

Dr. Henry says she has worked with Elections B.C. since March in order to come up with an election plan, if and when an election was to be called in 2020—which it was earlier today (Sept. 21).

Henry says that guidelines along how candidates, their staff and how the public will be able to participate in this year’s fall election will be released soon.

5,972 people have recovered from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

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