Minister of Health Adrian Dix has defended measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19, even as his province set one-day case counts records on Friday and Saturday. Dix along with Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry cancelled indoor dining, in-person worship and group fitness classes last week to curb an alarming growth in COVID-19 cases. Other measures in place since November include restricting indoor gatherings to individual households only and to avoid travel to other health regions. 's latest COVID-19 measures were very strict, and did not say if other new measures could be coming in days ahead. The 1,018 new cases on Friday and 1,072 new cases on Saturday were both single-day infection records.

Source: CBC News April 05, 2021 01:35 UTC