B.C. health officials announced a single new death and 29 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. It is the fifth time since the beginning of April that the province has reported a single fatality from the virus over a 24-hour period.
It brings the province’s death toll to 127, with 2,317 confirmed cases to date. About 68 per cent of those patients have fully recovered.
Hospitalization numbers remained relatively flat. The province said there were 73 COVID-19 patients in hospital, Friday, 20 of them in intensive care.
The province said there were no new outbreaks in residential care facilities. Sixteen long-term care homes and five acute care units have ongoing outbreaks.