B.C. reports 689 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths

B.C. is reporting 689 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 158,256 cases in the province.

There are 5,982 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 150,377 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 121 individuals are in hospital and 56 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 24 hours, two new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 1,784. The new deaths include:

Interior Health: one

Northern Health: one

There is one new long-term care facility outbreak at Heritage Village (Fraser Health). The outbreak at Discovery Harbour long-term care (Island Health) has been declared over, for a total of 11 active outbreaks, including:

long-term care: Kin Village West Court, Evergreen Baptist Care Society (Fraser Health), Village at Mill Creek – second floor, Nelson Jubilee Manor, Kootenay Street Village, Cottonwoods Care Centre and Brookhaven Care Centre (Interior Health)

acute care: none

assisted or independent living: Nicola Meadows, Hawthorn Park and David Lloyd (Interior Health)

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 7,280,835 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

As of Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, 82.9% (3,842,302) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 74.0% (3,431,103) received their second dose.