B.C. reports 30 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths

Health officials on Tuesday reported 30 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. and no new deaths.

The province has seen a rise in confirmed cases, including more than 70 connected to the outbreak in Kelowna.

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“Here in B.C., our curve is trending upward, and we need to bend our curve back down to where it belongs,” reads a joint statement from Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

There are 3,328 confirmed cases of the disease in the province, the government said in a statement Tuesday afternoon, noting a slight data correction in the overall number of total and active cases.

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Of those, 2,873 patients have fully recovered, or about 86 per cent.

B.C. now has 266 active cases.

Fifteen COVID-19 patients are in hospital, with three of them in intensive care.

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The province’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 189.

The numbers come a day after the province announced 102 cases of COVID-19 over a 72-hour period.

Henry said most of the new cases have been in people in their 20s and 30s who have widened their social circles.

Henry warned Monday of the potential for “explosive” growth in the number cases if the public continues to be too lax with preventing the spread of transition.

— With files from Richard Zussman and Jules Knox