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B.C. health officials provided a COVID-19 data update today.
B.C. reports 237 new COVID-19 cases, no deaths
Published 3:28 PDT, Tue March 15, 2022
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B.C. health officials reported 237 new cases of COVID-19 today. Since the pandemic began, B.C. has recorded 352,965 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, 40 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region (including Richmond), 70 in the Fraser Health region, 34 in the Island Health region, 69 in the Interior Health region, 24 in the Northern Health region, and no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada.
There are 345 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 50 are in intensive care.
To date, 11,420,286 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C.; 4,326,812 of those are second doses and 2,628,454 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; 58.6 per cent of adults and 56.7 per cent of those aged 12-plus have received three doses.
There were no new COVID-related deaths reported today.
Health authorities reported five health-care facility outbreaks over. Active outbreaks continue at eight long-term care facilities.
Due to a delayed refresh in BC Centre for Disease Control data, the update on cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status is unavailable.
Rapid antigen test kits are available for those aged 40 and older as of today. Eligible people can pick up one kit containing five tests every 28 days from participating pharmacies at no cost. Individuals should pick up a test kit when not having symptoms of illness to use at a future time when they have symptoms of illness.
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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