Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minster Adrian Dix will announce British Columbia's latest COVID-19 numbers Monday at 3 p.m. The news conference will be the first since Friday, when a record 124 new cases of COVID-19 were announced for the preceding 24-hour period. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry at a COVID-19 press conference in Victoria in mid-August. The number of active cases of infection from the novel coronavirus also hit a record high, at 974 out of 5,496 total cases to date on Friday. Centre for Disease Control shares public exposures to COVID-19, including what people should do if they have been exposed.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2020 16:25 UTC