B.C. health officials were set to provide three days’ worth of COVID-19 data at a news briefing on Monday.
Officials were also expected to address the large gatherings that took place in Metro Vancouver on Halloween night.
On Friday, B.C. added another 272 cases of COVID-19 to its total, while the number of people isolating due to possible exposure topped 6,000 for the first time.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry also granted new powers to regional medical health officers to issue stricter orders for their own jurisdictions.
B.C. has also limited the size of gatherings in private homes to no more than your immediate household plus your “safe six,” which refers to six additional people in your household’s bubble, and not six additional people per person living in your house.
Henry was not scheduled to Monday’s briefing. Instead, Health Minister Adrian Dix was set to be joined by Dr. Réka Gustafson, deputy provincial health officer and vice-president of the Provincial Health Services Authority.
The news conference at 3 p.m. will be carried live on BC1, on our website, the Global BC Facebook page and CKNW.
— With files from Simon Little