An additional 53 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in B.C. over the past 48 hours.
A total of 2,224 people have been infected in the province and 1,417 of those people are now fully recovered.
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By health authority, there have been 1,027 cases in Fraser Health, 845 cases in Vancouver Coastal, 177 in Interior (up three from Saturday), 124 in Island and 51 in Northern.
There are 77 COVID-19 patients in B.C. hospitals, 20 of whom are in intensive-care units.
Three more people have died in the last 24 hours from COVID-19, all of whom were residents at long-term care homes in the Lower Mainland, bringing the province’s COVID-19 death toll to 117. Two of those deaths occurred in Interior Health, with a man in Kelowna and a man in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops succumbing to the disease.
There are 21 active outbreaks at long-term care homes and assisted living facilities, and two outbreaks at hospital acute-care units, with 266 residents and 168 staff affected, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said.
There are no new cases as of Monday at any of the impacted facilities, which are predominantly located in theVancouver Coastal and Fraser Health regions.
One care home in Kelowna currently has an outbreak of COVID-19.
Three COVID-19 outbreaks remain at poultry farms in the Lower Mainland, totalling 96 cases.
Henry said there are 54 cases at Superior Poultry, 35 cases at United Poultry and seven cases at Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry.
There are also 134 cases of COVID-19 at the federal penitentiary in Mission, where 121 inmates and 13 staff have been infected. One inmate has died.
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Henry said there are now 15 people in B.C. who returned from the Kearl Lake oil sands project in northern Alberta and tested positive for COVID-19. There have also been additional family members of those people who have contracted the virus. Interior Health has 12 confirmed cases among workers from Kearl Lake, as well as seven confirmed cases of people who did not travel to Kearl Lake, but had contact with a worker. Of these 19 cases, 16 people have recovered.
“This is one of the reasons we have been so concerned,” Henry said.
Anyone returning from working in Kearl Lake is asked to self-isolate and close contacts such as family members should monitor for symptoms until the outbreak there is declared over.
Henry said she is aware of one instance in which someone returned from Kearl Lake didn’t recognize they had a mild illness of COVID-19 and passed it on to a close contact who was a health-care worker.
“We need to be very vigilant right now,” Henry said.
