BC Leads Canadian Provinces in ‘Flattening the Curve’

BC Leads Canadian Provinces in ‘Flattening the Curve’
British Columbia provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry arrives for a news conference to give an update on COVID-19, in Vancouver on March 18, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
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British Columbia has been the first among Canadian provinces to show signs of “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 cases.
In particular, in Ontario and Quebec, the number of confirmed cases has steadily increased. But in B.C., that number has grown at a slow rate over the last two weeks, and hospitalizations and active cases—people who have not yet recovered—have been flat for the last week.