health officials announced a record number of COVID-19 cases for the second straight day Friday, as the province confirmed 589 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, along with two additional deaths. Public health is actively monitoring 7,887 people across the province, who are in self-isolation due to COVID-19 exposure. On Friday, there were 402 new cases there compared to the Vancouver Coastal Health region, which recorded 146. On Thursday, what was then a record high 425 new cases of COVID-19 were announced, with more than 60 per cent of them located in the Fraser Health region. In a tweet, Dix said that there had been 10,591 COVID-19 tests performed in the province in the past 24 hours.

Source: CBC News November 06, 2020 23:48 UTC