British Columbia has announced the first COVID-19-related death in the country.

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COVID-19: B.C. announces Canada’s first coronavirus death

 

BY SIMON LITTLE AND JON AZPIRI GLOBAL NEWS

Posted March 9, 2020 1:43 pm

Updated March 9, 2020 2:24 pm

British Columbia has announced the first COVID-19-related death in the country.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the man is one of two people at a North Vancouver care home who was diagnosed with the virus last week.

Henry said the man passed away Sunday night.

“Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and loved ones and also of course to the staff that provided him care, and to his home at the Lynn Valley Care Centre,” Henry said.

Henry said Vancouver Coastal Health officials have been on site at the care home since they learned that a woman who worked at the care centre had been diagnosed with the virus.

She said two additional residents at the home had tested positive for the virus, and that ongoing testing and monitoring of all residents at the facility is underway.

Another health care worker has also tested positive for the virus, a woman in her 40s who lives in the Fraser Health Region. She remains at home in isolation, Henry said.

Henry said officials had also identified two cases who were close contacts of B.C.’s first known case of community transmission of COVID-19, both of whom are now in isolation and being monitored.

B.C. has confirmed 32 cases of COVID-19.