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B.C. reports 406 new COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths

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

B.C. is reporting 406 new cases of COVID-19, including 10 epi-linked cases, for a total of 206,690 cases in the province.

There are 4,694 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 199,480 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 445 individuals are in hospital and 137 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 24 hours, five new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,186.

The new deaths include:

Interior Health: one

Northern Health: four

There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks at Royal Inland Hospital (Interior Health) and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Island Health), for a total of 41 active outbreaks.

From Oct. 25-31, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 64.4% of cases.

From Oct. 18-31, they accounted for 72.4% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Oct. 25-31) – Total 3,743

Not vaccinated: 2,205 (58.9%)

Partially vaccinated: 204 (5.5%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,334 (35.6%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Oct. 18-31) – Total 381

Not vaccinated: 255 (66.9%)

Partially vaccinated: 21 (5.5%)

Fully vaccinated: 105 (27.6%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 25-31)

Not vaccinated: 280.2

Partially vaccinated: 70.0

Fully vaccinated: 30.9

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Oct. 18-31)

Not vaccinated: 48.3

Partially vaccinated: 9.1

Fully vaccinated: 2.3

Province has administered 8,263,575 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

90.0% (4,171,944) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 85.4% (3,958,398) have received their second dose.

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