has confirmed 1,428 new cases of COVID-19 and eight more deaths from the disease over the last three days. Recent days have seen an upward trend in the number of new cases reported daily, and the test positivity rate is climbing, hitting 6.8 per cent provincewide on Sunday. have lost their lives due to COVID-19 since the pandemic began out of 77,263 confirmed cases to date. There have been 28 new confirmed cases of these variants for a total of 101 identified in B.C. "No matter what the variant, COVID-19 can spread before someone has any symptoms of illness.

Source: CBC News February 23, 2021 00:36 UTC