After nine cases reported in two days, Northern Health has reached a total of 137 test positive cases of Covid-19.
Provincewide, BC has seen 68 confirmed cases, marking a total of 5,372 according to BC Health Officials.
Of the total cases, 906 are considered active, as 22 people are in hospital and seven in critical care.
A resident of long term care in Fraser Health has died, marking the province’s 204th death related to the virus.
However, 4,253 people have now been given a clean bill of health says Provincial Health Officer Doctor Bonnie Henry, marking a recovery rate of 79 percent.
The outbreak at Arbutus Care Centre is over, however health officials are dealing with another 11 in the healthcare system.
2,810 people under active public health monitoring due to potential exposure.
“There is one new community outbreak with seven confirmed cases at the Teck Fording River water treatment plant construction site in the Interior Health region. Public health teams are supporting and undertaking contact tracing,” said Dr. Henry.
BC is also reporting the first 8 suspected cases of ‘MISC’ or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.
“To date, eight suspected cases have been reported at BC Children’s Hospital, although importantly, all have tested negative for COVID-19 and have had no known contact with reported cases. Since none of the cases were confirmed to be linked to a COVID-19 infection, we expect they are likely due to another cause,” Dr. Henry explained.
However, these are not confirmed COVID-19 or MISC cases, she added, noting the median age of affected patients is four years old.
“Monitoring for MIS-C was set up a few months ago. The eight cases were reported recently because the case definition for MIS-C recently changed to include suspected cases. There have been no confirmed cases of MIS-C reported in B.C.”
Meanwhile, BC Health Officials have released a detailed map of COVID-19 cases in BC, based on where patients live, from January to July.
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