B.C. records 622 new COVID-19 cases, finds 136 variant cases

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There are 4,941 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., up by 50 from Wednesday. A total of 286 people are in hospital, with 85 in intensive care.

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Within Interior Health, there are 327 active cases, a decrease of 25 from Wednesday. There are 17 people in hospital with four in critical care.

Eight more people have died of the virus, lifting the provincial death toll to 1,419. Three of the newly-recorded deaths took place in Interior Health, raising the regional death toll to 113.

Of the 1,132 variant cases found in B.C., 1,040 are the B.1.1.7 variant first found in the United Kingdom.

Henry reported 9,620 people are under active public health monitoring due to direct COVID-19 exposure.

Another 83,613 people are considered fully recovered from the virus, or 93 per cent of all recorded cases.

Henry says 465,584 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C. to date, and the province’s vaccination campaign will ramp up significantly in coming weeks with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.