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B.C. reports 692 new COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths

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

B.C. is reporting 692 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 343,631 cases in the province.

The new cases include:

Fraser Health: 157

Vancouver Coastal Health: 75

Interior Health: 217

Northern Health: 138

Island Health: 105

People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 733 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 113 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, five new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,786.

There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks at Langley Memorial Hospital and Menno Home (Fraser Health). The outbreak at Queen's Park Care Centre (Fraser Health) has been declared over, for a total of 33 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 10-16, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 22.1% of cases.

From Feb. 3-16, they accounted for 32.0% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 10-16) - Total 5,277

Not vaccinated: 974 (18.5%)

Partially vaccinated: 189 (3.6%)

Fully vaccinated: 4,114 (77.9%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 3-16) - Total 851

Not vaccinated: 238 (28.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 34 (4.0%)

Fully vaccinated: 579 (68.0%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 10-16)

Not vaccinated: 238.6

Partially vaccinated: 85.0

Fully vaccinated: 90.7

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 3-16)

Not vaccinated: 65.0

Partially vaccinated: 30.3

Fully vaccinated: 12.3

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,216,953 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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