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B.C reports 2,701 new COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths

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BC's provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry during a news conference in Victoria. (Photo - BC Govt.)

Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 2,701 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 341,286 cases in the province:

Feb. 11-12: 1,151 new cases

Feb. 12-13: 883 new cases

Feb. 13-14: 667 new cases

Note: The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a system-wide downtime.

The new cases include:

Fraser Health: 783

Vancouver Coastal Health: 495

Interior Health: 676

Northern Health: 324

Island Health: 423

People who reside outside of Canada: none

There are 803 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 119 are in intensive care.

In the past 72 hours, 17 new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,764.

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreaks at George Derby Centre (Fraser Health), Westview Place, Hamlets at Penticton, Cottonwoods Care Centre, McKinney Place, Gillis House, Village by the Station and Spring Valley Care Centre (Interior Health) have been declared over, for a total of 39 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 4-10, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 23.8% of cases. From Jan. 28 to Feb. 10, they accounted for 31.2% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 4-10) - Total 7,784

Not vaccinated: 1,506 (19.3%)

Partially vaccinated: 348 (4.5%)

Fully vaccinated: 5,930 (76.2%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Jan. 28 to Feb. 10) - Total 1,153

Not vaccinated: 309 (26.8%)

Partially vaccinated: 51 (4.4%)

Fully vaccinated: 793 (68.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 4-10)

Not vaccinated: 335.4

Partially vaccinated: 117.9

Fully vaccinated: 146.9

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Jan. 28 to Feb. 10)

Not vaccinated: 84.1

Partially vaccinated: 41.7

Fully vaccinated: 16.9

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