There are now 2,224 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in B.C., after health officials announced 53 new cases Monday.
There were 34 new cases from May 2 to May 3, and then 19 more cases from May 3 to 4.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reports that there are 845 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), 1,027 in Fraser Health, 124 on Vancouver Island, 177 in Interior Health and 51 in Northern Health.
There are no new outbreaks in long-term care facilities. Currently, there are 23 active outbreaks in long-term facilities and couple acute care unit outbreaks in the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions. 226 residents have been affected and168 staff.
The outbreak at the Mission federal correctional institute in the Fraser Valley has continued to grow. The number of positive COVID-19 is 121 inmates and 13 staff. An investigation is going and the health authority expects more people may develop symptoms in the coming days and weeks.
There are seven positive cases at the Fraser Valley Poulty plant, and 54 people have tested positive in the ongoing outbreak at Superior Poultry, a chicken processing plant in Coquitlam. There are 35 positive cases related to the initial outbreak announced a couple of weeks ago at United Poultry Company Ltd., a Vancouver processing plant. Investigations are ongoing at all plants.
There are 15 positive cases of COVID-19 connected to the Kearl Lake plant in Alberta and additional family members. Anyone who is returning from the plant is asked to self-isolate for 14 days.
There have been three new deaths, for a total of 117 fatalities in the province.
There are currently 77 people in acute care in hospital and 20 are in critical care.
1, 417 people have fully recovered and are no longer in isolation.
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Last week, Henry stated that despite a number of community outbreaks, the decrease in cases is clear evidence that the sustained efforts to follow public health measures has slowed the rate of transmission of COVID-19.
"In addition, our increased surveillance testing has led us to find people in our community who are positive for COVID-19 and the vast majority of them are linked to outbreaks now, which is an important thing for us to understand so that we know where transmission is happening in our community," Henry said.
