By James Peters

COVID-19

B.C. COVID-19 case count up by 120; 43 more in Interior Health

Jun 17, 2021 | 3:27 PM

VICTORIA — B.C. is reporting another 120 cases of COVID-19 Thursday (June 17), with 43 cases — or 36 per cent — being found within Interior Health.

The totals were reported by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in a briefing.

In total, B.C. has recorded 146,793 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, distributed as follows:

• 35,297 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 13)
• 85,428 — Fraser Health (up by 53)
• 5,145 — Island Health (up by 5)
• 12,945 — Interior Health (up by 43)
• 7,775 — Northern Health (up by 5)
• 203 — Reside outside of Canada (up by 1)

Henry says there are 1,451 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Thursday, a decrease of three from Wednesday. There are 131 people in hospital and 44 in intensive care.

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Within Interior Health, there are 333 active cases of the virus, an increase of 13 from Wednesday. There are 16 patients in hospital and seven in critical care.

One more person has died of the virus, raising the provincial death toll to 1,739. The Interior Health death toll remains at 155.

A full 143,579 people are considered fully recovered from COVID-19, or 98 per cent of all recorded cases.

Meantime, Henry reports 76.5 per cent of adults and 74.8 per cent of everyone age 12 and older has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. To date, 4,231,871 doses of vaccine have been administered to British Columbians, including 768,008 second doses.