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B.C. reports 2,103 new COVID-19 cases and 44 deaths

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Over a four-day period, B.C. is reporting 2,103 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 345,734 cases in the province. (Photo - The Canadian Press)

Over a four-day period, B.C. is reporting 2,103 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 345,734 cases in the province:

Feb. 18-19: 631 new cases

Feb. 19-20: 571 new cases

Feb. 20-21: 424 new cases

Feb. 21-22: 477 new cases

There are 688 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 108 are in intensive care.

In the past 96 hours, 44 new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,830.

The new deaths include:

Fraser Health: 11

Vancouver Coastal Health: 17

Interior Health: seven

Northern Health: four

Island Health: five

There have been four new health-care facility outbreaks at Hillside Village, Polson Long Term Care, Mission Creek Landing and Williams Lake Seniors Village (Interior Health). The outbreaks at Mountainview Village, Noric House, Poplar Ridge, Pinegrove Care Centre (Interior Health), Tsawaayuus Rainbow Gardens and Berwick on The Lake (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of 31 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 11-17, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 21.4% of cases.

From Feb. 4-17, they accounted for 32.0% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 11-17) - Total 4,945

Not vaccinated: 891 (18.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 169 (3.4%)

Fully vaccinated: 3,885 (78.6%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 4-17) - Total 802

Not vaccinated: 225 (28.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 32 (4.0%)

Fully vaccinated: 545 (68.0%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 11-17)

Not vaccinated: 220.0

Partially vaccinated: 77.9

Fully vaccinated: 85.3

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 4-17)

Not vaccinated: 61.8

Partially vaccinated: 28.3

Fully vaccinated: 11.6

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,281,350 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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