Continued drop for active cases of COVID among today's highlights from Provincial COVID update

A slight reduction in the volume of new cases of COVID for the province today and continued reductions in the number of active cases marked the notes from today's written statement from Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.

“Today, we are reporting 446 new cases, including 10 epi-linked cases, for a total of 58,553 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 5,045 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. There are 368 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 72 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation. 

Currently, 7,238 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 51,144 people who tested positive have recovered. 

There have been nine new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,019 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's reported the following case counts over the last 24 hours:

96 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 223 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 14 in the Island Health region, 67 in the Interior Health region, 46 in the Northern Health region, after adjustments that brings the total number of COVID reports in the Northern region to 2,606 since January of 2020.

There were no new cases of COVID report by people who reside outside of Canada. 

When it comes to vaccinations across the province, today's statement states that 62,294 people have received a COVID-19 vaccine in British Columbia.

You can review more of today's 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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