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Mar 11, 2022 1:27 AM - Connect News

B.C. reports 336 new COVID-19 cases and 4 deaths

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

B.C. is reporting 336 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 351,751 cases in the province.

There are 388 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 52 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, four new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,932.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Yucalta Lodge (Island Health). The outbreaks at Overlander Residential Care and Gillis House (Interior Health) have been declared over, for a total of 14 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From March 2-8, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 18.0% of cases. From Feb. 23 to March 8, they accounted for 29.0% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 2-8) - Total 2,108

Not vaccinated: 330 (15.7%)

Partially vaccinated: 49 (2.3%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,729 (82.0%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 23 to March 8) - Total 386

Not vaccinated: 91 (23.6%)

Partially vaccinated: 21 (5.4%)

Fully vaccinated: 274 (71.0%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 2-8)

Not vaccinated: 90.9

Partially vaccinated: 29.3

Fully vaccinated: 37.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 23 to March 8)

Not vaccinated: 25.1

Partially vaccinated: 19.6

Fully vaccinated: 5.8

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,393,545 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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