B.C. reports 593 COVID-19 cases

B.C. is reporting 593 new cases of COVID-19, including nine epi-linked cases, for a total of 190,372 cases in the province.

There are 5,937 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 182,045 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 345 individuals are in hospital and 144 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 24 hours, no new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 1,983.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at the University Hospital of Northern BC (Northern Health). The outbreak at Menno Terrace East (Fraser Health) has been declared over, for a total of 19 active outbreaks.

From Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 70.7% of cases and from Sept. 20-Oct. 3, they accounted for 78.1% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Sept. 27-Oct. 3) – Total 4,922

Not vaccinated: 3,160 (64.2%)

Partially vaccinated: 320 (6.5%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,442 (29.3%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Sept. 20-Oct. 3) – Total 347

Not vaccinated: 242 (69.7%)

Partially vaccinated: 29 (8.4%)

Fully vaccinated: 76 (21.9%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 27-Oct. 3)

Not vaccinated: 297.3

Partially vaccinated: 90.1

Fully vaccinated: 35.1

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 20 to Oct. 3)

Not vaccinated: 36.7

Partially vaccinated: 12.9

Fully vaccinated: 1.7

Province has administered 7,894,975 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

88.3% (4,092,813) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 81.7% (3,789,179) received their second dose.