By James Peters

COVID-19

Province records 738 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, 70 in Interior; 13 more deaths in B.C.

Nov 25, 2020 | 3:32 PM

VICTORIA — It has been a deadly day in B.C.’s fight against COVID-19.

In her Wednesday (Nov. 25) news conference, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 13 more deaths due to the virus, bringing the provincial death toll to 371.

Henry reported 738 new cases of COVID-19, including 70 within Interior Health.

The new cases, bring B.C.’s total to 29,086 since the pandemic arrived here, spread through the province as follows:

• 8,161 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 169)
• 18,167 — Fraser Health (up by 443)
• 526 — Island Health (up by 21)
• 1,426 — Interior Health (up by 70)
• 713 — Northern Health (up by 35)
• 94 — Reside outside of Canada (unchanged)

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There are 7,616 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C, including 294 people who are in hospital, 61 of whom are in critical or intensive care.

Interior Health reports 336 active cases, with five people now in hospital.

The number of people under active public health monitoring due to exposure to COVID-19 cases has reached 10,270.

A total of 19,814 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 68 per cent of all confirmed cases.

Meantime, Henry explained a data correction that skewed numbers over the past week-plus.

Henry says a recording glitch led to misreported numbers for Fraser Health:

• Nov. 16 — (461 initially reported) 324 actual
• Nov. 17 — (484) 343
• Nov. 18 — (481) 537
• Nov. 19 — (308) 417
• Nov. 20 — (294) 610
• Nov. 21 — (488) 634
• Nov. 22 — (469) 525
• Nov. 23 — (347) 432
• Nov. 24 — (678) 443

That correction means B.C. did not, in fact, set a new daily case count record Tuesday. It did, however, set a new case count record on Saturday (Nov. 21) with 859.