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B.C. health officials provided a COVID-19 data update today.

COVID-19 in B.C. today: 1,245 cases, 17 deaths

Published 4:00 PST, Fri February 11, 2022

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B.C. health officials reported 1,245 new cases of COVID-19 today. Since the pandemic began, B.C. has recorded 338,792 cases.

Of the new cases, 227 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region (including Richmond), 350 in the Fraser Health region, 190 in the Island Health region, 335 in the Interior Health region, 143 in the Northern Health region, and no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada.

The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh, according to a B.C. government news release. The release also noted that due to a planned Provincial Health Services Authority network outage, daily COVID-19 reporting may be delayed until end of day on Monday (Feb. 14).

There are 846 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 136 are in intensive care.

To date, 11,068,338 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C.; 4,234,749 of those are second doses and 2,386,210 are third doses.

This means that 93.4 per cent of adults, 93.1 per cent of people aged 12 and older, and 90.3 per cent of people aged five and older have received their first dose of a vaccine. In addition, 90.9 per cent of adults, 90.4 per cent of those aged 12 and older, and 85 per cent of those aged five and older have received two doses; 54.3 per cent of adults and 51.5 per cent of those aged 12-plus have received three doses.

Sadly, there were 17 new COVID-related deaths reported today, bringing that total to 2,747. Of those who died, two lived in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, nine in the Fraser Health region, three in the Island Health region and three in the Interior Health region.

Health authorities reported two new health-care facility outbreaks and declared nine over. Active outbreaks continue at 43 long-term care facilities, one assisted or independent living facility, and two acute care facilities.

From Feb. 3 to 9, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 23.7 per cent of cases.
From Jan. 27 to Feb. 9, they accounted for 31.3 per cent of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 3 to 9)—Total 8,243

• Not vaccinated: 1,579 (19.2 per cent)

• Partially vaccinated: 375 (4.5 per cent)

• Fully vaccinated: 6,289 (76.3 per cent)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Jan. 27 to Feb. 9)—Total 1,194

• Not vaccinated: 322 (27.0 per cent)

• Partially vaccinated: 51 (4.3 per cent)

• Fully vaccinated: 821 (68.7 per cent)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 3 to 9)

• Not vaccinated: 349.0

• Partially vaccinated: 126.9

• Fully vaccinated: 147.4

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Jan. 27 to Feb. 9)

• Not vaccinated: 88.2

• Partially vaccinated: 42.4

• Fully vaccinated: 17.5

For the latest medical updates, including case counts, prevention, risks and to find a testing centre near you: http://www.bccdc.ca/ or follow @CDCofBC on Twitter.