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B.C. adds 179 cases of COVID-19 to total, including 40 historic cases

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Health officials have added 179 cases of COVID-19 to B.C.'s total, including 40 'historic cases' that involved people who don't have a personal health number.

A laboratory technical assistant at LifeLabs, handles a specimen to be tested for COVID-19 after scanning its barcode upon receipt at the company's lab, in Surrey, B.C., on March 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckVANCOUVER -- Another 139 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in B.C., health officials announced Friday.

Those cases were investigated previously by Vancouver Coastal Health but had not yet been entered into the provincial data.Three more deaths were recorded, bringing the provincial death toll up to 223.There are now 1,803 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., a new record high. "The cases we are seeing today are a direct result of how we spent our Labour Day long weekend," Dix and Henry said.

There are 3,075 people currently under monitoring from public health after being exposed to a known case of the coronavirus, and 5,797 people who had the disease have now recovered.

 

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