The B.C. government is reported 102 cases of COVID-19 in the past three days.

That includes 51 cases on Saturday, 19 on Sunday and 32 today. Forty-five of those cases are in the Interior Health Authority, nearly half of the new cases announced today.

The 51 new cases from Saturday is the largest one-day increase in B.C. since April 28, when 55 cases were reported.

Meantime, there are now over 60 cases of COVID-19 linked to a community outbreak in downtown Kelowna. That’s up from 35 confirmed cases on Friday, when provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry noted that health officials were trying to contact “hundreds” of people who may have been exposed.

The outbreak in Kelowna started after a group of people in their 20s and 30s spent a weekend partying. They were from the Kelowna area, as well as the Lower Mainland and Alberta.

The number of people in hospital remains relatively unchanged; there are now 16 people in hospital with the virus and four people in intensive care, compared to 18 hospitalizations and two people in intensive care on Friday.

There are 253 active cases across B.C., compared to 207 on Friday. Also, there were zero deaths from the virus over the weekend, and the death toll in this province from COVID-19 remains at 189.

Henry says we are now at 65-75 per cent of normal contacts in our communities, which she says could lead to the number of new cases picking up quickly.

She says cases reported over this past weekend had increased connections and contact with more people than what has been the standard through the spring.