B.C. has recorded 34 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, and no additional deaths.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry confirmed to reporters Wednesday (July 22) that three of the new cases are epi-linked.
This brings the total test-positive active cases to 205. Seventeen people are in hospital, three of those in critical care.
Seventy of the recent confirmed cases are linked to community exposures in Kelowna. Roughly 1,000 people are self-isolating at home, across the entire province, because they have been in contact with someone who has contracted the contagious respiratory illness.
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More to come.
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