B.C.'s provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry during a press conference in Victoria. (Photo - B.C. Govt.)
B.C. is reporting 525 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 180,178 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 currently 5,282 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 172,624 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 332 individuals are currently in hospital and 155 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.
In the past 24 hours, one new death (Vancouver Coastal Health) has been reported, for a total of 1,900.
There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Victoria Chinatown Care Centre (Island Health), for a total of 22 active outbreaks.
From Sept. 13-19, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 76.1% of cases and from Sept. 6-19, they accounted for 84.7% of hospitalizations.
Past week cases (Sept. 13-19) – Total 4,367
Not vaccinated: 2,982 (68.3%)
Partially vaccinated: 340 (7.8%)
Fully vaccinated: 1,045 (23.9%)
Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Sept. 6-19) – Total 353
Not vaccinated: 279 (79%)
Partially vaccinated: 20 (5.7%)
Fully vaccinated: 54 (15.3%)
Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 13-19)
Not vaccinated: 290.3
Partially vaccinated: 87.2
Fully vaccinated: 26.3
Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 6-19)
Not vaccinated: 39.8
Partially vaccinated: 8.2
Fully vaccinated: 1.2
Province has administered 7,725,586 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.