B.C. crosses grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 cases

In addition, 89.8% (3,884,354) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 84.4% (3,652,493) received their second dose.

B.C. is reporting 715 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 200,249 cases in the province.

There are 4,965 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 192,819 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 377 individuals are in hospital and 136 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 24 hours, four new deaths (Northern Health) have been reported, for an overall total of 2,096.

There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks at Deni House (Interior Health) and Bulkley Valley District Hospital (Northern Health), for a total of 26 active outbreaks.

From Oct. 13-19, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 66.4% of cases and from Oct. 6-19, they accounted for 76.2% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Oct. 13-19) – Total 4,351

Not vaccinated: 2,561 (58.9%)

Partially vaccinated: 325 (7.5%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,465 (33.7%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Oct. 6-19) – Total 445

Not vaccinated: 314 (70.6%)

Partially vaccinated: 25 (5.6%)

Fully vaccinated: 106 (23.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 13-19)

Not vaccinated: 308.7

Partially vaccinated: 95.6

Fully vaccinated: 34.5

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 6-19)

Not vaccinated: 53.9

Partially vaccinated: 11.0

Fully vaccinated: 2.4

Province has administered 8,103,896 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

89.4% (4,141,865) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 83.8% (3,883,585) received their second dose.