Vancouver Island Marmots safe from Green Mountain Fire

New in this update:BC's Provincial Health Officer says COVID-19 case counts are higher than she'd like to see, but Dr. Bonnie Henry says the situation is "under control" because public health workers are able to keep up with contact tracing. There have been 47 new cases confirmed over the past 24 hours, but none is in the Island Health Region.Meanwhile, Henry says 46 people in Vancouver contracted the virus and 400 others are self-isolating as a result of one group of party-goers mingling with overlapping social circles in the days following the party.Cool temperatures and a few downpours are helping to put out the fire on Green Mountain, south of Nanaimo.At one point, the fire threatened an area set aside for Vancouver Island marmots. The 300-hectare habitat site is home to a colony of 200 marmots. However, the executive director of the Marmot Recovery Foundation, Adam Taylor says the fire was contained to a half hectare in the management area.