B.C. records 648 new COVID-19 cases; active case load soars past 5,000

Mar 12, 2021 | 3:58 PM

VICTORIA — B.C. has recorded it’s highest single-day COVID-19 case count in weeks.

In a prepared statement, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reports another 648 cases of COVID-19 were found Friday (Mar. 12), including 39 in Interior Health.

That brings the B.C. total to 86,867 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic arrived, spread out as follows:

20,282 — Vancouver Coastal (up by 149)
50,861 — Fraser Health (up by 372)
2,686 — Island Health (up by 32)
7,777 — Interior Health (up by 39)
5,101 — Northern Health (up by 56)
160 — Reside outside of Canada (unchanged)

The active case load in B.C. has ballooned to 5,070, up 158 from Thursday. There are 255 people in hospital and 67 in intensive care.

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Within Interior Health, there are 378 active cases, up by 10 from Thursday. Fifteen people are hospitalized including five in critical care.

No new COVID-19 deaths were record Friday, leaving the B.C. death toll at 1,397 and the Interior Health death toll at 108.

B.C. has identified 79 new cases considered variants of concern, raising the total in the province to 717.

A total of 9,155 people are under active public health monitoring due to direct COVID-19 contact.

A further 80,325 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 92 per cent of all recorded cases

by James Peters

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B.C. records 648 new COVID-19 cases; active case load soars past 5,000

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