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British Columbia’s provincial health officer says plans are in the works to expand the province’s battle against the novel coronavirus, which has been diagnosed in seven people.

Dr. Bonnie Henry says the World Health Organization has not listed the outbreak as a pandemic, but the situation is changing, with confirmed cases in 39 countries.

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She says among the seven people in B.C. with COVID-19, five are doing well and have either recovered or are near recovery.

Cases 2, 3 and 4 — a Vancouver resident and two relatives from the Wuhan region staying with that person — have recovered and are awaiting final tests before being released from quarantine at home.

Case 5 — a woman living in the B.C. Interior who had returned from Shanghai — is also doing well, while Cases 6 and 7 — two Fraser Valley residents who had close contact with each other, one of which who had recently returned from Iran — remain at home in isolation while recovering.