Health officials have identified 85 more cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia over the last 24 hours, the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases the province has seen since April 25.
Another person has also died from the virus, health officials said in a statement Wednesday. The death is the first COVID-19 death in B.C. in the last 11 days, and the provincial death toll now stands at 196.
Two of the new cases are epidemiologically linked, and there have been a total of 4,196 cases in B.C. since the pandemic began. A total of 3,469 people who tested positive for the virus in the province have since recovered. The update comes on the same day the province announced it would be hiring 500 additional people to conduct contact tracing, and Dix and Henry referenced that announcement in their statement.
There have been no new outbreaks of the virus in the last day, either in health care settings or in the community, Henry and Dix said.
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