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By Ashley Legassic

COVID-19

B.C. reports six new COVID-19 related deaths; 55 new cases

Apr 2, 2020 | 3:12 PM

VICTORIA — B.C. has reported 55 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, and six people have died in the same time period.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during her daily news conference today (April 2), that for the first time two deaths have been recorded on Vancouver Island.

The total number of test-positive cases in B.C. has reached 1,121 — which includes 641 people who have fully recovered.

Henry also announced another community outbreak — this time at the Okanagan Correctional Centre near Oliver.

An inmate there has tested positive.

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There are 121 cases of COVID-19 in the Interior Health region.

The six new deaths in the past 24 hours brings the provincial death toll to 31. Meantime, 149 people are in hospital, with 68 of those patients in the intensive care unit.