COVID-19 update on Tuesday afternoon.The news conference at 3 p.m. will be carried live on BC1, on our website, the Global BC Facebook page and CKNW.The province reported 4,040 new cases of COVID-19 over the past four days along with 23 deaths, as concern continues to grow over the spread of variants in the province.
B.C. reports 1,889 new COVID-19 cases over two days On Monday, the province reported 916 new variant cases since April 1, pushing the total number past 3,500 since the start of the pandemic.There are 588 active cases of the variants in B.C., with 373 being identified as the B.1.1.7 strain, originally found in the U.K., and 215 identified as the P.1 strain, originally found in Brazil.