B.C. reports 832 new COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths

B.C. is reporting 832 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 181,769 cases in the province.

Note: The numbers of total and new cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh and will be verified once confirmed.

There are 5,697 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 173,786 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 330 individuals are in hospital and 148 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

In the past 24 hours, five new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 1,915.

The new deaths include:

Fraser Health: two

Interior Health: two

Northern Health: one

From Sept. 15-21, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 75.5% of cases and from Sept. 8-21, they accounted for 82.6% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Sept. 15-21) – Total 4,417

Not vaccinated: 2,996 (67.8%)

Partially vaccinated: 342 (7.7%)

Fully vaccinated: 1,079 (24.4%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Sept. 8-21) – Total 437

Not vaccinated: 327 (74.8%)

Partially vaccinated: 34 (7.8%)

Fully vaccinated: 76 (17.4%)

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

Not vaccinated: 289.0

Partially vaccinated: 87.9

Fully vaccinated: 27.0

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

Not vaccinated: 46.5

Partially vaccinated: 13.3

Fully vaccinated: 1.8

Province has administered 7,756,634 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

87.3% (4,046,960) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 79.9% (3,701,696) received their second dose.