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At the daily update on COVID-19 cases from B.C. health officials on Thursday afternoon, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 66 new cases of COVID-19.

The number of people being treated in hospital grew by just two overnight and there were no new intensive care cases compared to Wednesday’s count.

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On Wednesday, Henry suggested she was somewhat heartened by that day’s slow growth in hospitalized cases, a trend that was repeated again on Thursday. But she remained cautious about the situation.

“We’re still very much in the first period from when we started putting in these restrictive measures,” she said. “There are people out there who were incubating this disease. We know there’s been transmission. So we are not going to see a dramatic change for another five to six days … There are many things that can happen. We can have an outbreak in the community. We can have an outbreak in a hospital. There are so many scenarios right now.”