BC B.C. records more than 70 new daily COVID-19 cases 3 days in a row for 1st time since the pandemic began 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.

NZ All the places linked to the new Covid-19 cases New Zealand's coronavirus-free streak came to an end this week after four cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the community. On Sunday, 13 new confirmed cases were announced, with three people in hospital with the virus – two in Auckland City Hospital​ and one at Middlemore Hospital. And a child who returned from Afghanistan via Dubai and had been staying at the CBD’s Pullman Hotel was shifted to a quarantine hotel. Twelve of Sunday’s new cases were in the community, and one in managed isolation.