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B.C. reports 742 new COVID-19 cases

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Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on during a tour as Island Health medical health officer Mike Benusic, right, and Minister of Health Adrian Dix take in the tour at the Victoria Conference Centre vaccination site to promote walk-in Wednesdays, an effort by the province to encourage those needing a first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a site tour in Victoria on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Over a four-day period, B.C. is reporting 742 new cases of COVID-19, including two epi-linked cases, for a total of 150,631 cases in the province:

July 30-31: 160 new cases

July 31-Aug. 1: 196 new cases

Aug. 1-2: 185 new cases

Aug. 2-3: 201 new cases

There are 1,544 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 147,285 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 53 individuals are in hospital and 19 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 96 hours, one new death (Vancouver Coastal Health) has been reported, for an overall total of 1,772.

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 6,902,320 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

As of Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, 81.4% (3,773,442) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 67.3% (3,121,311) received their second dose.

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