Health officials announce 84 new cases Friday but no new deaths.
B.C. health officials announced 84 new COVID-19 cases Friday, the first time the province has seen more than 70 daily cases for three days straight since the start of the pandemic.
The cases continued the upward trajectory that Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry had warned about the day before, when the province saw 78 cases. That figure followed 85 cases on Wednesday.
There are now 629 active cases in the province, with 12 people in hospital and four in intensive care, Henry and B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said in a joint statement.