 acknowledging that we are on the traditional and unceded territories of the Lekongun speaking peoples, particularly the Sanjis and Esquimalt First Nations and are very grateful for these traditional keepers of this land and we look to them to support us in doing our work in a good way. To start with our case updates we have 42 new cases who have tested positive today for a total of 659 in British Columbia right now. By health authority that is 339 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 218 in Fraser Health, 47 on Vancouver Island, 46 in Interior Health Authority and 9 in the Northern Health Authority. We have one additional long-term care home in the Vancouver Coastal Health region where one health care worker has been detected with COVID-19 and that is the Broadway Pentecostal Lodge in Vancouver. In terms of the long-term care homes we have no additional cases today at the Lin Valley Care Centre, though unfortunately we do have one additional death from that outbreak. Hollyburn and Delta View, the German Canadian house, Dufferin Care Centre, Little Mountain Long-Term Care and Evergreen Heights which we've reported on have had no change in the number of residents or staff affected at this point but there has been an increase at Harrow Park where we now have 28 residents and 27 staff who have been affected by COVID-19. Currently there are 64 people hospitalized in British Columbia and of those 26 are in intensive care unit today. On the positive side we now have 183 people who have fully recovered from COVID-19 in BC. As mentioned yesterday the coroner's office is investigating the death of a dentist to determine if this death was related to COVID-19 and I want to express again my condolences and my thoughts to his family who I know are have been extremely affected by this and it has been a very challenging few days for them. I want to say that the coroner's investigation is ongoing and I do not have any further details to report at this point. So we have as we know yesterday I was also asked for information on health care workers specifically and whether we had a breakdown of health care workers who have been affected by this and I looking right now I do not have the exact numbers of health care workers unless they're related to the clusters particularly the clusters in long-term care or in hospital that we've that we've had and so we have those nine long-term care facility outbreaks and we've had the one hospital and of those we now have we have 55 health care workers who are affected from those outbreaks for most of the other health care workers who have been involved in these who have tested positive their exposures have been more in the community and so they have not been identified for example the number of dentists that we've had are also health care workers but their exposures have not been in the workplace but we do I mean it does draw attention again to the the fragility of our long-term care facilities and the the risk that we put the residents of long-term care and that is why we have put on some very strong measures not only for the facilities where there have been outbreaks but doing everything we can to try and protect our elders and seniors in those long-term care homes around the province and I talked yesterday about the order that we're developing that will help ensure that health care workers are able to work at one facility only particularly during this critical time to best protect our elders and seniors in these facilities as well there are additional measures in the outbreak facilities around personal protective equipment restriction of visitors and restriction of visitors in all of our health our long-term care homes across the province and I know this is incredibly challenging particularly when it's our loved one who's in one of these facilities and I know staff are going out of their way to try to find ways to keep you connected with your loved ones and we will continue to do that we have been as you know we've talked about this many times actively monitoring our supplies of personal protective equipment recognizing that the protection of our health care workers and our health care systems is a paramount importance in this outbreak in the past week we have seen a dramatic increase in use as we've had more people with COVID-19 in hospital and we understand the absolute need to keep people safe but the burn rate as we call it is much higher than we would have expected and we are putting in place measures now to try and and control that and be more efficient and effective and how we're using PPE we have new shipments on order we're looking at things like alternative supplies across the board alternative ways of preserving personal protective equipment so it is available both now and in the future and we're at a bit of a critical phase with personal protective equipment this happened quite quickly we have had a number of supplies on order for some time some have arrived thankfully and we are actively looking at how we can get as much as we can in the short term but we are looking at alternative supplies and ways of managing to be more efficient in PPE and more of that will come out over the next coming days finally I did want to talk about about public gatherings which is something that we've talked about a little bit over the last couple of weeks and as people are aware I have given an order prohibiting gatherings larger than 50 people and we talk about 50 people and initially there's no science behind that it's a it's around what's been done in other places what's sort of a manageable reasonable number of people where you can maintain distance with that number of people but this is not an order of convenience this is this is something that is required to protect people and and we know that 50 is not an absolute number it is the the maximum but we know smaller is better and we really at this point in time particularly in the next two weeks as we're trying to to delay the onset prevent the transmission of this virus we need to continue to to not meet in groups even groups of 10 even groups of 20 small groups even two or three can sometimes be that transmission point so when we're not talking about work places and and areas where people live where you can put in place measures to try and and increase separation but we're talking about gatherings about having people over to your home about gathering together in the park these are things that right now we can't be doing we need to connect virtually we need to have a safe space between us for the next little while and that includes that includes celebrations and ceremonies I recognize when we're in a crisis when communities are in crises having celebrations having ceremonies is our way of helping to cope helping to understand what's going on with these with these critical times but they are also times when we may expose those who are most vulnerable in our community our elders our seniors people who have a more at risk because of their underlying medical conditions and I'm asking you right now the leaders in our community that our faith leaders our spiritual leaders our community leaders that we need to come together virtually to protect those in our communities over the coming weeks and that means that we need to find alternate ways of coming together and sharing the information the support the connectivity that we have as a community without being physically together so again it's talking about physical distance and social connection it is very important right now that we come together in our communities and support each other but we do that in a virtual way and we have a safe space between us to stop the transmission of this virus so I said it many many times there are things that we do to support ourselves in this community and we we have to be kind we have to be calm and we have to continue to be safe thank you