 Good afternoon. I'm Adrian Dix, BC Minister of Health. To my right is Dr. Bonnie Henry, our provincial health officer doing our daily briefing on COVID-19 here in British Columbia. I wanted to first acknowledge that we're doing this on the territories of the Musqueam, the Squamish, the Slewa-toothed First Nations, and I wanted to introduce Dr. Henry. Thank you. Good afternoon. So for today's update, there's a couple of things we want to do. First to give you the new cases and the new totals that we have in the province, and then we're going to talk a little bit about what this means and some of the data that we're using to drive and to understand what's happening in our community. So to start with we have 74 new test positive cases today, giving us a total of 424 people in our province who have tested positive for this disease. That is 230 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 126 in Fraser Health, 37 on Vancouver Island, 27 in Interior Health, and we remain at four people in Northern Health. In addition, we have had five new cases admitted to hospital for a total of 27 and of those 12 people are in ICU and six have recovered. We have one additional death related to the Lynn Valley Care Centre bringing our total to 10. On a positive note, we've had some we've had the person who was hospitalised at one of our long-term care homes is now out of hospital, which is good news, and we have a number of increases in staff, increased by one in the residents and staff at Lynn Valley Care Centre who have tested positive. I think this tells us again that we have risk around the province and how important it is for us to take pay attention to what's happening in our community and take those measures that we have been talking about all along. So this is not only confined to hospitals, to our health care sector. It's also in our communities and the actions that we are taking today make a difference in how we can transfer this disease to others. As well, I am issuing a new order today, effective today. I'm now ordering that personal service establishments must close until further notice as these require direct personal contact with other people and that is impossible to deliver while maintaining appropriate distance. So these are things like salon spas, massage parlours, tattoo shops, etc. And I know most of the these businesses have closed, but it's come to my attention that there is still confusion out there about whether they should be open or not. So we want to make it very clear that the expectation is that these will be closed. So I'm going to give us a little bit of a look if we can put out the slide. We've talked a little quite a bit about what we do in public health and about epidemiology and epidemiology is the study of the who, what, where, and when of diseases and it's about tracking the disease and helping us understand what's going on with it. So we track two curves and what we have been talking about here for the most part is the number of people who have tested positive on a given day. So the numbers that I gave out today, for example, were the positive tests that came out of our lab over the last 24 hours. And so that is this curve here. I guess I need to, okay. That is this curve there. If we look at what has happened since the beginning of January and the 15th of January, we had our first case. The dark blue represents the cases plotted on what we call an epic curve by their onset of illness. So there's two things that we're looking at. What you are receiving every day, what we have been giving out is the number of people who test positive. Those people are people who have been identified by public health as having a risk, having an exposure. They get a test. Sometimes it takes several days before that happens. So when somebody gets sick, there'll be some time before they recognize it sometimes. And that's one of the challenges that we've had with this disease, that people may go to work, may interact with others before they realize they're sick. At some point, they realize they're sick, they may see their health care provider, they may go to one of our assessment centers now, and they get a test. And it takes sometimes several days for those tests to come back. In the meantime, public health is doing their investigation, the detailed investigation. And as we talked about from the beginning of this, we did very detailed investigations on all of our initial cases, where people who are imported from other places. And we find out when people's symptoms start, because that helps us understand where their exposure might be. And with this disease, we know the incubation period is up to 14 days. So we meticulously track everywhere that they had been in those 14 days and determine if there are other people that were exposed and we keep those people in isolation to see if they develop symptoms so that if and when they develop symptoms, they're not passing it on to others. So the curves that we're watching very carefully are the dark blue. And this is our happy curve by onset of illness. And this is the one that we will start to see decrease if all of the measures that we're taking are effective. So when we talk about flattening the curve, it's not necessarily the test per day that is important. It's the number of people getting infected and making sure that we can look back at those days ahead and isolate people before they can transmit it to others. So this affects, you know, this is why we have put in some of these drastic measures that we've been talking about around social distancing. The social distancing, the physical distancing from people is what helps us not transmit this infection between us. And this is incredibly important right now for everybody. We know that we've had community cases for a couple of weeks now. We know that people in the community are transmitting it to each other and that is leading to the outbreaks that we've been seeing in long-term care homes, in hospitals. It means that healthcare workers are getting infected. They're getting infected in the community and then bringing it into work in some cases or transmitting it between each other and between their families. These are important things that we can affect now. I think we'll go to one other. I also wanted to give you an idea of what we've been following in terms of the ages of people who are affected here in British Columbia. And what we have in the dark lines are the proportion in our population that are in that age group. And what we have in the lighter lines are the number of people that have tested positive for this disease. And as you can see, there's more people in the older age group. We have very few people in the age 10 to 19, so young people. We have nobody under the age of 10 at the moment who's infected with this disease. We have a cluster, a group of people in their 30s to 40s, and that mostly reflects healthcare workers who are involved with our clusters. It also represents up to 20 people now that have been associated with the dental conference. That happened a few weeks ago here in BC. So those tend to be younger, healthier people. But we also have a skew to the older people. And again, that represents the severity of this disease in older people and the outbreaks that we're seeing in our long-term care homes. So we will be posting this information on a regular basis over the next coming weeks so that you can have a look at this as well and understand how we're doing at making that epidemic curve flatten out and lengthen out so that we're best able to take care of everybody in our healthcare system. This is our chance to alter the course of this epidemic, and we can do it. We have seen that it is effective in other countries. If we all do our part, it's in our hands right now. So this is our chance to stay apart, to connect socially, to connect virtually, to support each other, but to physically distance. And I'm calling on all of you to do that right now. Thank you very much, Dr. Henry. And Dr. Henry has noted that we have 74 additional cases today. And just to put it in context of some of the discussion we've had about acute care beds in the last few days, that represents 27 people in acute care, 12 people in ICU, which is an increase of two since we last reported. And we also, as Dr. Henry has said, are reporting an additional death today associated with the Lynn Valley care home and our hearts go out to the family and to the people at Lynn Valley for their loss. I wanted to update you on a few brief facts. In the coming week, we'll be updating more regularly the number of tests. We've been updating it every Friday, as you know, up to now. We'll be updating that more regularly. That will happen on the BCCDC website starting sometime early next week. And so that will give us sense, because I think some people, by the time we get around to Thursday, look at those numbers and say, it's not enough, so we want to make sure people are up to date on that. I want to do a special call out to people who have been in touch with 811 nurses and staff in the last day. And they are very proud of the extraordinary work they do, more than 3,000 calls. I just want to, you know, that in addition to previous additions, we added seven nurses as of yesterday and 30 patient navigators to the 811 services of yesterday. We also had a record day with the patient self-assessment tool yesterday with more than, well, over 530,000 calls, which was a record day for us on that. And approximately 1,800 people contacted the COVID-19 line. I wanted to note the news release from Vancouver Coastal Health about all of the measures and additional protections that are happening in long-term care, which will be mirrored by similar releases in Fraser Health and Island Health today. And just to finish off, because we want to focus today on what Dr. Henry has said about the progress of the pandemic in British Columbia, just a few points, that there's a lot of discussion. I know there's some anxiety about there, about the measures that have been taken, the very strong measures that have been taken here in British Columbia. And I think what I said yesterday and what Dr. Henry has said consistently is that they require 100% compliance. We need everyone to comply. Most of these measures are orders. They're also enforceable orders. They're orders of the Provincial Health Officer. It is, and so if you've traveled internationally, you have to stay home for 14 days. You have to stay home for 14 days. That is your obligation, your responsibility to your loved ones and to the community. It's also an order. There are no bars, no restaurants except for takeout. As Dr. Henry said in personal services industry, large gatherings, those are all orders. They're the obligation of people not to do those things. They're also orders and they must not happen. As you know, many municipalities have closed down recreational facilities and many other things. Those have happened and they're significant and they reflect what's happened in other jurisdictions. School classes have been canceled both at the K to 12 level and at the post-secondary level. Those have happened. And so I want to say that again, that it's everyone's obligation to comply. And the most important thing, the thing we've been saying here at every briefing since January, that if you're sick, stay home. If you're sick, stay home. And that is, I think, a key order, a key responsibility that everyone has to deal with the spread of COVID-19. There may be questions and we look forward to questions in comparison with other jurisdictions, but these are essentially what people are doing everywhere. And we'd be happy to discuss that in the question period. This is really, for all of us, as individuals and as a society, the greatest fight of our time. Our response so far has been good and it's been human, but it needs to be more than that. It needs to be 100%. It isn't about somewhere else. It isn't about somebody else. It's about you. It's about me. It's about all of us. And that's why it's essential. That's why we need from everyone 100% participation, 100% effort, and 100% compliance with what Dr. Henry has asked. These are tough measures, but tough measures are as tough as our commitment. 100% of us to follow them. Thank you very much. We look forward to taking your questions. Thank you, Minister. And before we take... Excuse me. Excuse me. And Dr. Henry, I want to remind you that you have to do it briefly in French if you want. We announce today 76 new cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia for a total of 424 in the province. We also announce with great sadness that our resident of Lin Valley, who was tested positive for COVID-19, is decided. We offer our sincere condolences to their loved ones and to the staff who took care of them. Each resident of 101 Colombian-British Columbia accounts for patients with COVID-19. 230 in Vancouver Coastal. 126 in Fraser. 37 in Vancouver. 27 in the province. And 4, always 4 in the north. In addition to the total of COVID-19 cases, 27 people are currently hospitalized. 12 of them are in intensive care. 6 people are re-established. The other patients are at home, isolated. Accounting today the establishment of personal services must close to a new order. Through these services, a direct personal contact with other people is needed. And this is impossible to prevent while keeping distance, appropriate. We're happy to take your questions. Thank you, Minister.