By James Peters

COVID-19

B.C. COVID-19 spread elevates; 1,120 new cases recorded over three days

Nov 2, 2020 | 3:24 PM

VANCOUVER — B.C. has reached a new level of COVID-19 transmission.

Deputy Public Health Officer Dr. Reka Gustafson reported a total of 1,120 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the province over the past three days – 352 on Saturday (Oct. 31), a daily-record 389 on Sunday and 379 on Monday.

Thirty-six of the new cases were found within Interior Health.

The 1,120 new cases bring B.C.’s total to 15,501 COVID-19 cases recorded since the pandemic began, spread throughout B.C. as follows:

• 4,898 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 234)
• 9,049 — Fraser Health (up by 830)
• 265 — Vancouver Island (up by 9)
• 777 — Interior Health (up by 36)
• 422 — Northern Health (up by 10)
• 90 — Reside outside of Canada (up by 1)

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Gustafson reported 2,945 active cases Monday in B.C., including 90 people in hospital and 19 in critical care or intensive care.

In Interior Health, there are 93 active cases but no one in hospital.

Six more people have died of the virus – five in the Vancouver Coastal region and one within Fraser Health. The B.C. death toll is now up to 269.

There are 6,448 people under active public health monitoring due to exposures to known COVID-19 cases.