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B.C reports 442 new COVID-19 cases and 10 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 442 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 349,213 cases in the province.

There are 517 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 73 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, 10 new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,883.

The new deaths include:

Fraser Health: two

Vancouver Coastal Health: four

Interior Health: two

Northern Health: two

There have been five new health-care facility outbreaks at Mission Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health), Gillis House (Interior Health), Berwick House Gordon Head, The Heights at Mt. View and Greenwoods (Island Health). The outbreaks at Burnaby Hospital, Langley Memorial Hospital, Good Samaritan Delta View Care Centre (Fraser Health), Glenmore Lodge, Castleview Care Centre (Interior Health), Eden Gardens, Kiwanis Village Lodge, Glacier View Lodge, Sidney All Care, Wexford Creek and Salvation Army Sunset Lodge (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of 21 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 22-28, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 19.7% of cases. From Feb. 15-28, they accounted for 34.6% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 22-28) - Total 3,087

Not vaccinated: 494 (16.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 114 (3.7%)

Fully vaccinated: 2,479 (80.3%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 15-28) - Total 466

Not vaccinated: 137 (29.4%)

Partially vaccinated: 24 (5.2%)

Fully vaccinated: 305 (65.4%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 22-28)

Not vaccinated: 118.6

Partially vaccinated: 60.3

Fully vaccinated: 54.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 15-28)

Not vaccinated: 36.9

Partially vaccinated: 22.0

Fully vaccinated: 6.5

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,350,297 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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