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B.C. health officials provided a COVID-19 data update today.
B.C. reports 728 new COVID-19 cases
Published 8:39 PDT, Mon April 4, 2022
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B.C. health officials reported 728 new cases of COVID-19 since Friday. Since the pandemic began, B.C. has recorded 357,500 cases.
The numbers of total and new cases are provisional and will be updated when verified in the weekly report starting Thursday (April 7), according to a B.C. government news release.
Of the new cases, 151 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region (including Richmond), 218 in the Fraser Health region, 154 in the Island Health region, 168 in the Interior Health region, 36 in the Northern Health region, and one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada.
There are 321 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19—an increase of 47 from the number reported on Friday—and 36 are in intensive care.
To date, 11,506,019 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C.; 4,357,946 of those are second doses and 2,675,686 are third doses.
This means that 93.8 per cent of adults, 93.5 per cent of people aged 12 and older, and 90.9 per cent of people aged five and older have received their first dose of a vaccine. In addition, 91.5 per cent of adults, 91.1 per cent of those aged 12 and older, and 87.4 per cent of those aged five and older have received two doses; 59.5 per cent of adults and 57.7 per cent of those aged 12-plus have received three doses.
An update on the number of deaths related to COVID-19 will be provided on Thursday.
Health authorities reported one new health-care facility outbreak. Active outbreaks continue at eight long-term care facilities and two acute care facilities.
From March 25 to 31, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 18.6 per cent of cases. From March 18 to 31, they accounted for 20 per cent of hospitalizations.
Past week cases (March 25 to 31)—Total 1,682
• Not vaccinated: 282 (16.8 per cent)
• Partially vaccinated: 31 (1.8 per cent)
• Fully vaccinated: 1,369 (81.4 per cent)
Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 18 to 31)—Total 396
• Not vaccinated: 66 (16.7 per cent)
• Partially vaccinated: 13 (3.3 per cent)
• Fully vaccinated: 317 (80.1 per cent)
Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 25 to 31)
• Not vaccinated: 77.6
• Partially vaccinated: 21.1
• Fully vaccinated: 29.7
Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 18 to 31)
• Not vaccinated: 19.6
• Partially vaccinated: 12.4
• Fully vaccinated: 6.7
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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