A woman living in the Interior Health region has been identified as having the fifth presumptive case of COVID-19 in B.C., provincial authorities announced on Friday.

British Columbia’s minister of health, Adrian Dix, and the province’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, made the announcement.

Henry said the woman travelled from Shanghai, China, to Vancouver, and then by private vehicle to the Interior.

No information was given as to who the woman is or where she lives, other than she’s in isolation at home and that she’s in good condition.

Henry said the woman’s close contacts are in isolation as well.

“Interior Health is doing an investigation, even as we speak to get all of the details and to work out where, exactly, she has been over the last little while,” said Henry.

“We do know that she came in through Shanghai. She was not in Hubei province and was not in an area where travel was restricted.”

During the press conference, Henry said the woman received health advice, that she was self-isolating and monitoring herself, and that she called ahead when she felt she needed medical attention.

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