By Cheryl Jahn

COVID numbers for March 12

Mar 12, 2021 | 3:58 PM

NORTHERN bc – Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia.

“Today, we are reporting 648 new cases for a total of 86,867 cases in British Columbia. “There are 5,070 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. A further 80,325 people who tested positive have recovered.”

Of the active cases, 255 individuals are currently hospitalized, 67 of whom are in intensive care.

“Since we last reported, we have had 149 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 372 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 32 in the Island Health region, 39 in the Interior Health region, 56 in the Northern Health region and no new cases of people who resides outside of Canada.

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There have been 79 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 717 cases. Of the total cases, 99 are active and the remaining people have recovered. This includes 667 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant, 36 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant and 14 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.

To date, 380,743 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 87,024 of which are second doses.

by Cheryl Jahn

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