COVID numbers slowly increasing across province.
The number of COVID-19-positive patients in B.C. hospitals surged over the weekend.
It included six deaths.
There are now 288 test-positive patients hospitalized across the province. That's up from 260 patients on Friday.
The hospitalization total, which includes incidental cases along with the people suffering from severe COVID-19 symptoms, increased twice last week, on Wednesday and Friday.
Prior to that, the count had been declining daily for more than six weeks.
There are signs that COVID-19 transmission is beginning to increase as well. There were 556 new cases confirmed over the weekend, which pushed the province's seven-day average up to 225 per day.
One week ago, the average was 202.
