COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, a day after reporting a record-high number of people in hospital with the disease.The news conference at 1 p.m.
will be carried live on BC1, the Global News website, the Global BC Facebook page and CKNW.The province confirmed 841 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday along with five deaths.There have been just under 128,000 cases in B.C.
since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 8,000 of which are active.A record 515 people are in hospital with COVID-19, the province said Wednesday, 171 of whom are in intensive care.More than 11,000 people are now in self-isolation due to possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.