B.C. health officials to provide Thursday COVID-19 update

British Columbia health officials are scheduled to provide their latest update on the province’s COVID-19 response at 3 p.m., Thursday.

Global News will stream the briefing live here, on our Facebook page and carry it on BC1.

The briefing comes a day after B.C. set new records for active cases and people isolating due to exposure to the virus.

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There were 3,120 active cases, while 7,133 people were self-isolating, officials said.

A “superspreader” event was also identified this week at a Chilliwack dance school, while the province also confirmed a second case of MIS-C, a rare inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19 in children.

As of Wednesday, about 78 per cent of B.C.’s 16,135 cases had recovered.




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