Health officials reported 131 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. over the past three days and no new deaths.
There were 50 cases from Friday to Saturday, 37 cases Saturday to Sunday, and 44 from Sunday to Monday.
The number of active cases in the province jumped from 386 on Friday to 445, an increase of just over 15 per cent.
There are 4,065 confirmed cases of the disease in B.C. Of those, 3,425 patients have fully recovered, or about 84 per cent.
B.C.’s death toll from COVID-19 remains at 195 as the province has not recorded a death related to the virus since July 31.
Nine COVID-19 patients are in hospital, a decrease of two since Friday. Three of those patients are in intensive care, a decrease of one.
The province says 1,765 people are in self-isolation.
Health officials have repeatedly warned B.C. residents as more COVID-19 cases emerge from large social gatherings.
Three Vancouver police officers and two Vancouver police patrols are in isolation after breaking up an out-of-control party with more than 100 people attending, Ralph Kaisers, president of the Vancouver Police Union, said on social media on Friday.
Kaisers told Global News the party took place in an apartment in downtown Vancouver in late July.
Between 16 to 20 officers are in self-isolation as a result, Kaisers said.
In addition, hundreds of people are now self-isolating following a house party in North Vancouver.
“The numbers of contacts related to that are in the 400 range,” B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Thursday.
People under the age of 40 make up a disproportionately large number of coronavirus cases in the Okanagan and throughout the wider Interior Health region, according to statistics from the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Forty-seven per cent of diagnosed cases in the Interior Health region involve people aged 20 to 40, compared to a provincial average of 34 per cent for the same age demographic.
The rise in coronavirus cases among young people is related to private parties in and around Kelowna, B.C., over the Canada Day long weekend, health officials have said.
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— With files from Amy Judd and Shelby Thom
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