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B.C. health officials provided a COVID-19 data update today.
B.C. reports 689 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths
Published 3:30 PDT, Mon March 14, 2022
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B.C. health officials reported 689 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday. Since the pandemic began, B.C. has recorded 352,728 cases.
The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh, according to a B.C. government news release.
Of the new cases, 166 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region (including Richmond), 213 in the Fraser Health region, 102 in the Island Health region, 150 in the Interior Health region, 58 in the Northern Health region, and no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada.
There are 359 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 51 are in intensive care.
To date, 11,416,368 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C.; 4,325,516 of those are second doses and 2,626,013 are third doses.
This means that 93.7 per cent of adults, 93.4 per cent of people aged 12 and older, and 90.7 per cent of people aged five and older have received their first dose of a vaccine. In addition, 91.3 per cent of adults, 90.9 per cent of those aged 12 and older, and 86.8 per cent of those aged five and older have received two doses; 58.5 per cent of adults and 56.7 per cent of those aged 12-plus have received three doses.
Sadly, there were 14 new COVID-related deaths reported since Friday, bringing that total to 2,946. Three reported deaths were removed from the total due to a data correction. Of those who died, five lived in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, seven in the Fraser Health region, and two in the Interior Health region.
Health authorities reported one health-care facility outbreak over. Active outbreaks continue at 12 long-term care facilities and one assisted or independent living facility.
From March 4 to 10, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.3 per cent of cases. From Feb. 25 to March 10, they accounted for 29.4 per cent of hospitalizations.
Past week cases (March 4 to 10)—Total 2,023
• Not vaccinated: 297 (14.7 per cent)
• Partially vaccinated: 53 (2.6 per cent)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,673 (82.7 per cent)
Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 25 to March 10)—Total 381
• Not vaccinated: 94 (24.7 per cent)
• Partially vaccinated: 18 (4.7 per cent)
• Fully vaccinated: 269 (70.6 per cent)
Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 4 to 10)
• Not vaccinated: 81.4
• Partially vaccinated: 31.3
• Fully vaccinated: 35.7
Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 25 to March 10)
• Not vaccinated: 27.9
• Partially vaccinated: 17.0
• Fully vaccinated: 5.7
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.
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