Two-dose COVID-19 vaccination rate reaches 80 per cent in B.C.; 743 new cases Friday

Sep 24, 2021 | 3:18 PM

VICTORIA — Eighty per cent of eligible British Columbians have now received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

The information came as part of an update provided by the province’s health ministry Friday (Sept. 24).

The ministry says the single-dose vaccination rate for British Columbians aged 12 and older is 87. 5 per cent, while the two-dose rate is 80 per cent even.

There are 743 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. Friday, including 177 within Interior Health.

The active caseload has risen to 5,979 across the province, with 1,268 of those cases in Interior Health.

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There are 319 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, including 149 in intensive care.

Seven more people have died of the virus, raising the provincial death toll to 1,922 since the pandemic began. One of the new deaths took place in Interior Health.

There are 21 outbreaks in B.C. healthcare facilities, including Kamloops Seniors Village (19 cases, one death), Overlander Seniors Centre in Brocklehurst (five cases), The Hamlets at Westsyde (six cases) and Hillside Village in Salmon Arm (nine cases, one death).

The province says 75 per cent of all new cases in the past week — and 82 per cent of all hospitalizations in the past two weeks — are among unvaccinated people.

by James Peters

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Two-dose COVID-19 vaccination rate reaches 80 per cent in B.C.; 743 new cases Friday

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