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B.C. reports more than 100 daily COVID-19 cases for the first time in five weeks

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

BC is reporting more than 100 daily COVID-19 cases for the first time in five weeks.

Health officials say 112 new cases have been diagnosed and four more people have died, pushing the death toll in the province to 1,767.

There are 603 active cases with 46 people in hospital, including 17 in intensive care.

Just over 80 per cent of all eligible residents have received at least one dose of vaccine, while about 58 per cent have received two doses.

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 6,422,503 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

As of Friday, July 23, 2021, 80.3% (3,723,154) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 58.1% (2,692,024) have received their second dose.

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