By James Peters
COVID-19

Thirteen COVID-19 deaths Friday; 667 new cases across B.C.

Oct 15, 2021 | 3:12 PM

VICTORIA — It has been a deadly day in the battle against COVID-19 in B.C.

In a news release, B.C.’s health ministry reports 13 more deaths from the virus Friday (Oct. 15), raising the provincial death toll to 2,055. Two of the deaths took place in Interior Health, while the remaining 11 were all in Fraser Health.

There were 667 new cases recorded Friday, with 101 in Interior Health.

The active COVID-19 caseload dropped to 5,128 across the province, including 817 in the Interior region.

There are 367 people in hospital and 152 in intensive care.

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The ministry says 89 per cent of eligible British Columbians aged 12 and older have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. An even 83 per cent have received two doses.

For the last week, those who are not fully vaccinated accounted for 68.3 per cent all new COVID-19 cases. Over the past two weeks, 76.3 per cent of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.

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