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785 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 01 Sep, 2021 03:59 PM

B.C. added 785 new COVID-19 cases for Wednesday.

There have now been 166,853 cases of COVID-19 in B.C. since the pandemic began, as well as 1,818 related deaths.

The death toll has increased by 2 since Tuesday.

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