Seven more people in B.C. have tested positive for the coronavirus, including two health-care workers at a long-term care home in North Vancouver.
Seven more people in B.C. have tested positive for the coronavirus, including two health-care workers at a long-term care home in North Vancouver, according to the provincial health officer, bringing B.C.’s total to 39.
Two of those cases appear to have been contracted through community transmission, Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday afternoon in Vancouver. Three are travel-related.
“It is these community cases that give us some degree of concern and grief,” Henry told a news conference in Vancouver.
“But being able to detect them is really important, because as soon as we detect them, we can start that detailed investigation to determine where they might have come in contact and it helps us uncover where other chains of transmission are in our community.”
The two cases of apparent community transmission, men in their 90s and 40s, are both residents of the Fraser Health region who are currently in isolation at home.
The travel-related cases include a woman in her 60s who recently returned from a tour in Egypt, a man in his 40s who travelled to Germany and a man in his 90s who