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B.C. reports 322 new COVID-19 cases and 9 deaths

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B.C.'s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry during a press conference in Victoria. (B.C. Govt.)

B.C. is reporting 322 new cases of COVID-19, including two epi-linked cases, for a total of 216,334 cases in the province.

There are 3,015 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 210,828 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 318 individuals are in hospital and 109 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the last 24 hours, nine new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,313.

The new deaths include:

Vancouver Coastal Health: three

Interior Health: one

Northern Health: five

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreaks at Village by the Station and Sun Pointe Village (Interior Health) have been declared over, for a total of 10 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Nov. 16-22, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 58.1% of cases.

From Nov. 9-22, they accounted for 69.2% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Nov. 16-22) – Total 2,663

Not vaccinated: 1,438 (54%)

Partially vaccinated: 109 (4.1%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,116 (41.9%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Nov. 9-22) – Total 299

Not vaccinated: 184 (61.5%)

Partially vaccinated: 23 (7.7%)

Fully vaccinated: 92 (30.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Nov. 16-22)

Not vaccinated: 193.8

Partially vaccinated: 48.1

Fully vaccinated: 25.1

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Nov. 9-22)

Not vaccinated: 38.4

Partially vaccinated: 15.8

Fully vaccinated: 2.0

Province has administered 8,587,520 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

91% (4,216,384) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.4% (4,053,088) have received their second dose.

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