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B.C. reports 750 new COVID-19 cases and 11 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 750 new cases of COVID-19, including three epi-linked cases, for a total of 342,282 cases in the province.

The new cases include:

Fraser Health: 167

Vancouver Coastal Health: 93

Interior Health: 277

Northern Health: 108

Island Health: 105

People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 762 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 121 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, 11 new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,777.

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreaks at Queen’s Park Care Centre (Fraser Health), Arrowsmith Lodge and Woodgrove Manor (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of 36 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 8-14, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 22.8% of cases and from Feb. 1-14 they accounted for 32.1% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 8-14) - Total 6,435

Not vaccinated: 1,207 (18.8%)

Partially vaccinated: 258 (4.0%)

Fully vaccinated: 4,970 (77.2%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 1-14) - Total 954

Not vaccinated: 267 (28.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 39 (4.1%)

Fully vaccinated: 648 (67.9%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 8-14)

Not vaccinated: 288.1

Partially vaccinated: 97.1

Fully vaccinated: 109.8

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 1-14)

Not vaccinated: 72.1

Partially vaccinated: 32.9

Fully vaccinated: 13.8

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,176,710 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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