B.C. reports 799 new COID-19 cases and 1 death

B.C. is reporting 799 new cases of COVID-19 today, for a total of 346,196 cases in the province.

The new cases include:

Fraser Health: 109

Vancouver Coastal Health: 52

Interior Health: 280

Northern Health: 214

Island Health: 140

People who reside outside of Canada: four

Note: 97 cases reported in Northern Health as new today are due to data corrections for historical cases reported between April 2021 and February 2022.

There are 653 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C., and 108 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, one new death (Northern Health) has been reported, for an overall total of 2,831.

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreaks at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and Chemainus Health Care Centre (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of 29 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

From Feb. 15-21, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 20.4% of cases and from Feb. 8-21 they accounted for 32.8% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 15-21) - Total 3,796

Not vaccinated: 658 (17.3%)

Partially vaccinated: 118 (3.1%)

Fully vaccinated: 3,020 (79.6%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 8-21) - Total 504

Not vaccinated: 141 (28.0%)

Partially vaccinated: 24 (4.8%)

Fully vaccinated: 339 (67.2%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 15-21)

Not vaccinated: 160.0

Partially vaccinated: 52.7

Fully vaccinated: 66.8

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 8-21)

Not vaccinated: 40.3

Partially vaccinated: 21.4

Fully vaccinated: 7.2

Since December 2020, the province has administered 11,290,330 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

Novavax’s Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine will soon be available in B.C. If interested, call 1-833-838-2323 to be added to the waitlist.