B.C. records highest daily COVID-19 case count since Dec. 2 with 800 new cases

22,470 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 264)
55,173 — Fraser Health (up by 381)
3,041 — Island Health (up by 45)
8,215 — Interior Health (up by 50)
5,699 — Northern Health (up by 58)
171 — Reside outside of Canada (up by 2)

There are 5,856 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Thursday, up by 283 from Wednesday. Three-hundred-six people are in hospital, with 79 in intensive care.

Within Interior Health, there are 362 active cases, up 19 from Wednesday. Seventeen people are in hospital including six in critical care.

Five more people have died of the virus, increasing the provincial death toll to 1,446. The Interior Health death toll remains at 114.

Health officials have identified 191 new confirmed cases of variants of concern, for a total of 1,772 variant cases in B.C. Two-hundred-fifteen are still active.

There are 9,964 people under active public health monitoring because they have been directly exposed to COVID-19.

A total of 87,351 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 92 per cent of all recorded cases.

The province has now delivered 610,671 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

by James Peters

B.C. records highest daily COVID-19 case count since Dec. 2 with 800 new cases

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