By James Peters

COVID-19

B.C. records 624 new COVID-19 cases Friday, including 60 in Interior

Dec 18, 2020 | 4:26 PM

VICTORIA — Public health officials are reporting another 624 cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Friday (Dec. 18), including 60 within Interior Health.

The new cases raise the provincial total to 45,400 since the pandemic arrived here, spread through B.C. as follows:

• 10,969 — Vancouver Coastal (up 106)
• 28,887 — Fraser Health (up by 406)
• 808 — Island Health (up by 5)
• 3,124 — Interior Health (up by 60)
• 1,509 — Northern Health (up by 47)
• 107 — Reside outside of Canada (unchanged)

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says active cases are down to 9,978 Friday, with 356 patients in hospital including 92 in intensive care.

There are 782 active cases within Interior Health, with 31 people in hospital including nine in critical care.

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Eleven more people died from the virus, lifting the province’s death toll to 724. According to Interior Health, two of the deaths are associated with the McKinney Place long-term care outbreak in Oliver.

There are 10,211 people under active public health monitoring due to direct exposure to known COVID-19 cases.

A total of 33,589 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 74 per cent of all recorded cases.

Meantime, Henry reported 1,376 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine administered Thursday, for a total of 2,592 since the vaccine arrived in B.C. earlier this week.