With the start of the school year weeks away, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix are emphasizing the importance of keeping community transmission as low as possible. "As we look to fall, what we've learned from other jurisdictions is that transmission in a school setting is a reflection of what's happening in our communities; keeping our community transmission low and slow keeps us all safe," they wrote. "And behind the scenes, public health is using contact tracing to mitigate the new growth in cases. An outbreak at the Krazy Cherry Fruit company in the Interior Health region has been declared over. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 1,232 cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 2,167 in the Fraser Health region, 148 in the Island Health region, 393 in the Interior Health region, 100 in the Northern Health region.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2020 22:45 UTC