Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Bonnie Henry said in a joint statement that they were not yet confident enough in the recovery to ease health-order restrictions.
"We are regularly reviewing the public health restrictions to assess when we can safely ease them," Dix and Henry said. "We know many are keen to resume activities and we will open what we can when we have the confidence it is safe to do so."
Thankfully, there were comparatively few deaths in the past day – four, which is lower than the average in the past week.
Of the 83,107 people known to be infected with the COVID-19 virus since the first case was detected in the province in January 2020, health officials list 1,380 people who have died, 76,752 people who are considered recovered because they have had two negative tests, 4,901 people who are actively fighting infections and 74 people who are unaccounted for, likely because they left the province without alerting authorities as to their status.