Three more cases of COVID-19 infection have been identified in B.C., bringing the total number of patients in the province to 12.
Three more cases of COVID-19 have been identified in B.C., bringing the total number of patients in the province to 12.
All three of the new cases are connected to the outbreak in Iran, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters Tuesday afternoon. It was her second news conference of the day concerning the coronavirus — another new case was announced in the morning.
The new cases involve three people who recently travelled to Iran: a man in his 60s, an adult woman living in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and a man in his 50s who lives in the Fraser Health region. The fourth patient is a woman in her 30s who contracted the coronavirus in the household of the eighth patient, a woman in her 60s who is visiting the Vancouver Coastal Health region from Iran.
All of the new patients are now in self-isolation at home, and their close contacts are being monitored, Henry said. None of the B.C. cases has become severely ill and four patients have recovered fully.
Henry said she believes the spike in cases reflects the fact that officials have urged people who’ve travelled to Iran to monitor themselves for sym