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COVID-19 in B C : Update on latest case counts coming from health ministry as daily average rises

B.C. health officials announced another 536 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the province s biggest single-day increase in infections since mid-May.

Several care homes in B C Interior battling COVID-19 outbreaks amid region s case surge

  VANCOUVER The surging COVID-19 case numbers in B.C. s Interior Health region appear to be spilling over into long-term care homes. Three new outbreaks have been declared in local long-term care facilities since Monday, according to the Interior Health website. Two of the homes – Cottonwoods Care Centre and Brookhaven Care Centre – are in Kelowna, where increasing COVID-19 transmission recently prompted a renewed indoor mask mandate for the Central Okanagan. The other outbreak was declared at Kootenay Street Village in Cranbrook. A fourth outbreak discovered last month at Nelson Jubilee Manor, another long-term care facility in the region, remains active.

COVID-19 B C update: Long weekend update to show whether cases continue to climb

  VANCOUVER British Columbia recorded another 742 cases of COVID-19 and one related death over the long weekend, health officials said Tuesday. The latest numbers from the Ministry of Health pushed the province s rolling seven-day average for new infections to 196, up from 35 in early July. The last time B.C. s average topped 200 cases per day was on June 5. The average has already far surpassed the heights of the province s first wave of the pandemic, but remains far below the peak average of 1,130 daily cases recorded during the third wave in April. Officials said 160 infections were identified from Friday to Saturday, followed by 196 from Saturday to Sunday, 185 from Sunday to Monday, and 201 from Monday to Tuesday.

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