B.C. health officials are reporting what is now a new single day record with 887 COVID-19 cases across the province, along with 13 deaths for the second straight day.

All told, 384 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 in the province, 96 in the last 14 days going back to Nov. 13.

There were 65 new cases reported in the Interior Health Authority, 374 of which are active with nine people in hospital, two in ICU. Active cases provincewide are up to 7,899 people with 294 people in hospital, 64 in ICU, three more than yesterday.

Further, the outbreak at Hamlets at Westsyde has been declared over with just one case – a health care worker – linked to this particular outbreak.

“Slow and steady is what we need with COVID-19 and it is how we will get through this second wave. The efforts we make each day make a difference,” said Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry.

“Exposures and transmission can happen anywhere. By paying attention to the places we go and the people we see, we can help contact tracers contain the further spread if that does occur.”

Of today’s case load, 612 are in Fraser Health, 168 in Vancouver Coastal, 18 on Vancouver Island, and 24 in Northern Health.

B.C. previously reported a single day record of 941 cases on Tuesday but that was adjusted yesterday because of a data correction in Fraser Health because of a recording glitch that skewed numbers. The previous single day record after the correction was 859 cases reported last Saturday.

There are 10,307 people being actively monitored by public health teams while the number of people who have recovered from a case of COVID-19 is up to 19,998, roughly 67 per cent of the total 29,973 cases in British Columbia.