The number of people that health officials are monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19 in B.C. has been steadily rising since the B.C. government started to regularly release these numbers earlier this month.
There are now 2,810 people being monitored for the deadly virus in the province because they have come into contact with people who are known to have contracted the disease.
The rise is in part because the number of known cases continues to increase. Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry revealed on Aug. 27 that 68 people have been identified as carrying the virus in the past 24 hours, making the total number of known infections 5,372 since the virus first appeared in the province in January.
The breakdown of all COVID-19 infections in the province by health region is:
• 1,737 in Vancouver Coastal Health (up 38);
• 2,818 in Fraser Health (up 23);
• 173 in Island Health (up three);
• 429 in Interior Health (no change);
• 137 in Northern Health (up four); and
• 78 people who reside outside Canada (no change).
There are now 906 people actively battling infections, with 22 of those in hospital, including seven patients who are in intensive care units. Most of those battling the disease are self-isolating at home.
In her briefing, Henry also shared a map to further break down the number of cases in each area:
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One more person, a senior in long-term care, has died, raising the death toll from the novel coronavirus to 204. There are 4,253 people who have fully recovered.
One new community outbreak has been identified in the Interior Health region: a construction site for a water treatment facility. There are seven cases identified so far from this outbreak, with six of those people being workers who have returned home.
