BC has already tied it's daily high for COVID-19 deaths one day after setting it.
On Thursday, health officials reported 13 deaths attributed to the virus, bring BC's death toll to 384.
The province also reported 887 new COVID-19 cases, with hospitalizations rising to 294, 64 of whom are in intensive care.
The vast majority of the new cases remain clustered in the Lower mainland, with 168 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 612 in the Fraser Health region, 65 in the Interior Health region, 18 in Island Health and 24 in the Northern Health region.
There are 7,899 active cases of in the province and 10,307 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of exposure to known cases.
“Let’s support our public health teams, which are tirelessly working to track the virus, break the chain of transmission and keep all of us safe. The best way to do that is for each of us to keep to as few faces as possible right now," said Dr. Bonnie Henry in a written statement.
“Exposures and transmission can happen anywhere. By paying attention to the places we go and the people we see, we can help contact tracers contain the further spread if that does occur."
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