B.C. reports 506 new COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths

Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 506 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 354,084 cases in the province:

March 18-19: 200 new cases

March 19-20: 170 new cases

March 20-21: 136 new cases

There are 271 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 49 are in intensive care.

In the past 72 hours, eight new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,974.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Selkirk Seniors Village (Island Health), for a total of eight facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From March 11-17, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 16.8% of cases. From March 4-17, they accounted for 26.1% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 11-17) - Total 1,487

Not vaccinated: 222 (14.9%)

Partially vaccinated: 28 (1.9%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,237 (83.2%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 4-17) - Total 437

Not vaccinated: 101 (23.1%)

Partially vaccinated: 13 (3.0%)

Fully vaccinated: 323 (73.9%)

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

Not vaccinated: 61.6

Partially vaccinated: 16.2

Fully vaccinated: 26.8

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

Not vaccinated: 30.4

Partially vaccinated: 12.4

Fully vaccinated: 6.9

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,449,892 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.