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One new COVID-19 case in Northern Health, province adds 132

No new deaths from the virus
Jess Balzer
Jess Balzer
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B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. (via The Canadian Press)

The numbers continue climbing. 

In a written statement this afternoon (Sept. 11), Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced 132 more COVID-19 cases discovered in the past day.

One of the new cases is in Northern Health, which brings the authority's total to 204. 

Yesterday (Sept. 10) saw the highest single-day case count in northern B.C. with 10 cases and in the province with 139.

Henry said on Thursday many of the cases in the north are still related to the religious gathering in Alberta through the transmission of the virus.

Officials added while the numbers may seem smaller to other parts of B.C., the number of cases rising and increase of hospitalizations is concerning to the region.

“We’re watching that very carefully, you know, [32 active] cases doesn’t seem like a lot in many communities, but we know the north is stretched and the resources that we have in public health to follow up with everybody is being stretched,” said Henry on what’s being done to contain any further spread of the virus, though unable to mention where those clusters are based.

The province's new grand total is 6,962 with 1,461 active cases. 

No new deaths have been recorded since Wednesday (Sept. 9); the toll remains at 213.

There are also 49 people in the hospital, 10 of which are in critical care. There are 3,198 on active-monitoring for possible exposure and 5,273 recoveries.

There have been 2,419 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 3,600 in Fraser Health, 190 in Island Health and 465 in Interior Health. 

Another 84 cases belong to people that live outside of Canada. 

“In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, our strength – as a province, as communities and as individual people – has been in all of us working together as one," Henry wrote in the statement. 

“We know COVID-19 has not been without challenge and loss. But we are working each day to find the balance of keeping new cases low and slow to protect those who are most vulnerable, while keeping our communities going.

"We have demonstrated kindness and compassion in the face of adversity and challenge, and this resilience will give us the strength for what lies ahead. Let’s continue to stand strong against our common foe that is COVID-19."

- with files from Kyle Balzer, PrinceGeorgeMatters