COVID-19 numbers continue to rise after provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry's latest update today (April 13).
There are 45 new test positive cases from the last 48 hours for a provincial total of 1,490.
Northern Health has no new cases. The total remains at 26 in the authority.
There were 11 new deaths in the past 48 hours for a total of 69 B.C. wide.
Henry said the majority of deaths have been in long-term care facilities, which have seen a total of 254 cases — 159 residents and 97 staff.
There have been no new outbreaks at long-term care facilities, but there have been additional cases at a federal correction centre in Mission.
"The outbreak continues to grow at that facility," Henry said. "Unfortunately... there was quite a lot of transmission that happened before the outbreak was recognized."
A total of 35 prisoners have tested positive, eight of whom are in hospital.
There are 905 people who have recovered and 137 hospitalized including 58 in intensive care.
New regulations that went into effect Friday for British Columbians returning from abroad have resulted in 13 people being forced into quarantine. Those are people who did not return with a government approved self-isolation plan.
A total of 1,701 British Columbians have returned home since April 10. So the vast majority of them had self-isolation plans confirmed by health officials and are now self-isolating.
Over the weekend, a video was posted of a small rally of people in Vancouver rallying people to deliberately disobey the order to avoid public gatherings. It trended on Twitter under #EndTheLockdown.
Asked about the event, Henry did not seem overly concerned, saying that the vast majority of British Columbians are complying.
B.C.’s Health Minister said the stunt appeared to be a case of someone "attempting to promote themselves.
"If you look in any depth at their other views, (they) are marginal views," Dix said. "Don't allow people who are attempting to promote themselves by using the suffering of others to distract us."
The provincial break down includes 87 cases on Vancouver Island, 650 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 591 in Fraser Health, 136 in Interior Health and the 26 in Northern Health.
- with files from Nelson Bennett, Business in Vancouver
