By James Peters

COVID-19

Daily record 203 COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C., including eight in Interior

Oct 21, 2020 | 3:38 PM

KAMLOOPS — B.C. has set a new daily record with 203 new COVID-19 cases recorded Wednesday (Oct. 21). That includes eight new cases in Interior Health.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says B.C. has also seen its first school outbreak, at École de l’Anse-au-sable school in Kelowna, with three cases among the school community. The province has recorded exposure events at schools previously, but this is the first outbreak.

Henry says 160 members of the school community have been ordered to self-isolate.

The 203 new cases bring the provincial total to 12,057 since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in B.C., spread through the province as follows:

• 4,215 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 40)
• 6,517 — Fraser Health (up by 151)
• 244 — Island Health (unchanged)
• 632 — Interior Health (up by 8)
• 361 — Northern Health (up by 4)
• 88 — Reside outside of Canada (unchanged)

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Henry says there are 1,766 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, including 70 people in hospital and 21 in intensive care.

Two more people have died of the virus, raising the provincial death toll to 256.

A total of 4,294 people are under active public health monitoring due to exposure to known COVID-19 cases.

The number of people now considered fully recovered is 9,993, or 83 per cent of all recorded cases.