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B.C. Premier John Horgan says hundreds of people returning home each day from outside Canada must submit a quarantine plan or they will be forced to stay at a federal quarantine site.

“Although we welcome home all of those travellers, we also are asking them to join with all of us in the battle we have been waging together over the past number of weeks,” Horgan said, addressing Snowbirds in particular.

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There are 450 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., with 45 new cases and five more deaths between noon Tuesday and noon Wednesday. The median age of the 48 people who have died in B.C. so far is 87. The number of patients in hospital has dropped to 135, with 61 in acute care.

“We’ve been staying home, we’ve been giving up some of our liberties, in the interest of the greater good,” Horgan said. “As people return, we have an expectation they will follow suit. Stopping at the golf course to hit a bucket of balls, and maybe going to pickup from groceries, and stopping at a buddy’s place, is not self-isolation.”