VICTORIA -- Two more workers at a military base near Victoria, B.C. have contracted COVID-19, prompting public health officials to declare the five active cases at the base part of an ongoing cluster. The first case was identified late in the evening of Feb. 3 at a navy fleet maintenance facility at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt. All maintenance work at the facility was scaled back to only the most critical duties the following day. However, a second case of COVID-19 was detected the morning of Feb. 5 and a third case was found later that evening. A fourth case was discovered the following Monday, Feb. 8. All four cases were found in civilian defence employees who worked closely with one another.