BC finds slight drop in daily reports of COVID from Tuesday report

A slight reduction in the daily case count was the theme for the Tuesday statement from Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix as they relayed the reports of COVID from the last 24 hour period.

“Today, we are reporting 428 new cases of COVID-19, including two epi-linked cases, for a total of 54,629 cases in British Columbia.  

There are 6,472 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. There are 367 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 77 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation. 

Currently, 8,596 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 45,999 people who tested positive have recovered.

There have been eight new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 954 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Across the province, the Health Authority reports for the day featured the following numbers of new cases: 

90 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 223 new cases in the Fraser Health region, nine in the Island Health region, 61 in the Interior Health region, 45 in the Northern Health region, which brings the Northern total to 2,189 date to cases since January 2020.

There were no new cases of COVID reported in BC of people who reside outside of Canada.

Doctor Henry also provided an update on the vaccination program in the province,

“While the focus is on first-priority populations in the next three months, as new vaccines are approved and additional supply becomes available, we will incorporate the additional doses into our distribution to enable as many people as possible to be immunized as soon as they can.

You can review today's COVID report from the Tuesday statement here.   

 

The BC Centre for Disease control has some valuable Coronavirus notes related to COVID-19 you can explore that information here.

You can learn more about the outbreak from both the Province and the Federal government from the links below:

Federal Government site

British Columbia Government site

The World Health Organization website also offers up the latest advisories on the global situation.

More from  Northern Health can be reviewed here 

You can review our archive of past statements and local information here.   

Local governments and organizations have also provided for increased awareness of COVID-19 issues, those past advisories  can be reviewed here.

For notes from across Canada and British Columbia we have been archiving the latest items through our political portal Darcy McGee

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