The province is reporting 131 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday afternoon.

The active case count has risen to 445 in B.C. That’s up from 386 on Friday and 278 on July 31.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says we need to do better as a province to stop exposure events from happening.

“Parties and gatherings with young people, many of whom you don’t know, even if there aren’t 50 people are a concern. And we have seen that. We saw that on the July 1st long weekend. We’ve seen it across the province, where people have been coming together and having group gatherings with different people and not maintaining safe distances from people they don’t know.”

Meantime, there were no new deaths in B.C. from COVID over the weekend, and there has not been one since July 31.

There are now nine people in hospital with the virus and two people in intensive care.

The total case count in B.C. since COVID-19 arrived is now 4,065, and 1,012 of those cases have happened in the past month.