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B.C. reports lowest increase of COVID-19 cases in nearly a year

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Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry during a news conference in Victoria. (Photo - B.C. Govt.)

Over the last three reporting periods, BC had a total of 145 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 147,549 cases in the province.

This includes: 57 new cases from June 25 to 26, 50 new cases from June 26 to 27 and 38 new cases in the last 24 hours.

There are currently 930 active cases of COVID-19 in the province.

Of the active cases, 107 individuals are currently hospitalized, 37 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

There has been one new health-care outbreak at Surrey Memorial Hospital.

There have been five new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,754 deaths in British Columbia.

78.1% of all adults in B.C. have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

In total, 4,886,709 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 1,320,194 of which are second doses.

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