By James Peters

COVID-19

B.C. records lowest single-day COVID-19 case count in weeks — but 16 more deaths

Dec 8, 2020 | 4:23 PM

VICTORIA — Provincial health officials are reporting 566 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday (Dec. 8), the lowest single-day case count since November 19. There were 74 new cases found within Interior Health.

The totals are included in an update to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control website.

The new cases bring the provincial total to 38,718 total cases since the pandemic began, spread through the province as follows:

• 9,861 — Vancouver Coastal (up 136)
• 24,558 — Fraser Health (up by 297)
• 735 — Island Health (up by 11)
• 2,339 — Interior Health (up by 74)
• 1,132 — Northern Health (up by 48)
• 95 — Reside outside of Canada (unchanged)

There are 9,315 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., with 352 people in hospital and 74 in critical care.

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Within Interior Health, there are 636 active cases with 17 people hospitalized including four in critical care.

There have been 16 more deaths due to the virus, bringing the total number of deaths in B.C. to 543.

A total of 27,897 people are considered fully recovered from COVID-19, or 72 per cent of all recorded cases.

Meantime, IH says a community cluster of cases in Revelstoke has reached 50. According to a news release, 14 of those cases are active and in self-isolation and 36 individuals have recovered.