B.C.'s provincial health officer issued a new order to close personal service establishments such as salons, spas, massage and tattoo parlours.
Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of 424 people who have tested positive for the disease.
One more person has died, bringing the total in B.C. to 10. The death is linked to the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Island has 37 cases. There are 230 cases in Vancouver's Coastal Health region, 126 in Fraser Health, Interior Health has 27 cases and there remains four cases in Northern Health.
Twenty-seven people are being treated in hospital. Of these, 12 are in intensive care.
Six people have recovered completely.
Henry said while most people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are older, there is a cluster of people in their 30s and 40s — mostly health-care workers related to outbreaks in the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»area.
There are also 20 cases associated with a dental conference that took place in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»in early March.
Henry said the province is exploring options for delivering public-health messages to young people who may feel they are not at risk of contracting the disease.
Labs have been working through a backlog of tests results, which should be resolved by early next week, she said. That backlog has contributed to the peak in the number of cases in the last few days.
"That's not a reflection of when people got sick. It's a reflection when the test got reported," she said, adding that people are entering self-isolation in the period between being tested and receiving the results.
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