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By James Peters

COVID-19

New COVID-19 cases steady, but two new outbreaks and five more deaths recorded in B.C. Friday

May 15, 2020 | 4:04 PM

VICTORIA — New COVID-19 test positive cases remain steadily low in B.C., but there are concerning new developments in the province’s fight against the virus.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s daily update came in the form of a news release Friday afternoon (May 15).

The update showed 15 new cases of the virus in B.C., for a provincial total of 2,407 since COVID-19 first appeared here.

Here is how those 2,407 cases are spread out across the province:

• 878 (Vancouver Coastal)
• 1,164 (Fraser Health)
• 126 (Vancouver Island)
• 181 (Interior Health)
• 58 (Northern Health)

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The hospitalization rate is down once again Friday, with 51 people in hospital across the province, including 12 in intensive or critical care.

The number of people considered recovered from COVID-19 is now 1,908, or 79 per cent.

But two new outbreaks have cropped up – one at Abbotsford Regional Hospital acute care section and another at the Oppenheimer Group, a fruit and vegetable processing plant in Coquitlam.

And five more people have died of COVID-19 today, the highest total in weeks. Four of those people were in the Fraser Health region and the fifth in Vancouver Coastal. The provincial death toll is now 140.