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Lyonel Doherty
Aberdeen Publishing
The province’s top health officials are asking people to think of physicians when they venture outside this weekend.
Today is National Physicians Day, and Minister of Health Adrian Dix and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry would like people to honour them.
“Let’s honour and protect them by doing all we can to continue to flatten the curve,” they said in a joint statement this afternoon.
“When we are outside this weekend, think of them and always keep a safe physical distance from those around you. Be 100 per cent committed to keeping our firewall strong.”
The province is reporting 33 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total in B.C. to 2,145. The Interior Health region has 174 cases.
A total of 79 people are currently hospitalized, with 24 in intensive care.
Dix and Henry are “saddened” to report one new COVID-19 related death in the Fraser Health region, for a total of 112 deaths in B.C.
There are no new long-term care outbreaks today, but a total of 21 facilities and three acute-care units continue to be plagued by the virus.
Dix and Henry reported that 87 employees of two poultry factories in the Lower Mainland have COVID-19, and a total of 133 inmates and staff at the Mission federal correctional centre have tested positive for the virus. In addition, there are 15 positive cases connected to the Kearl Lake oil sands site in Alberta.
But the good news is that 1,357 people in B.C. who had previously tested positive are now fully recovered.
