VICTORIA — For the first time, B.C. has topped a thousand cases of COVID-19.
The provincial government reported 1,013 cases today, including 60 in the Northern Health region.
Here’s the regional breakdown:
That brings the total number of cases in B.C. since the pandemic began to 100,048, of those, 91,066 people have recovered.
“There are 7,405 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 11,468 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases,” reads a joint statement from Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix.
“Of the active cases, 301 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 80 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.”
Henry and Dix say due to a delay in the sequencing analysis for variants of concern, the new cases for the last 24 hours are unavailable.
There have been three new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,458 deaths in British Columbia.
To date, 756,080 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,351 of which are second doses.
