Case reports of COVID continue to hover in the low 400's, while 1,694 vaccinations reported provided in today's update

The progress in reducing the recent surge of COVID in BC continued to be seen today, with the Wednesday COVID statement from the Provincial Government noting a case count in the low 400's, while the pace of vaccination continued to ebb lower than previously seen in January.

“Today, we are reporting 414 new cases, including seven epi-linked cases, for a total of 68,780 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 4,426 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. There are 278 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 80 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation. 

Currently, 7,049 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 61,643 people who tested positive have recovered. 

There have been 16 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,234 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 review for the day delivered the following case counts:  108 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 182 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 26 in the Island Health region, and 63 in the Interior Health region.

For the Northern Health region there were 34 new cases reported, which brings the total to date to 3,558 positive cases of COVID-19 sine January 2020.

There was one new case of a person in British Columbia who resides outside of Canada. 

Towards the vaccination results, the top public health officials observed that to date, 142,146 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 6,417 of which are second doses. 

Dr. Henry and Minster Dix also highlighted the various elements that are considered towards how the provincial response to COVID evolves.

“Our B.C. COVID-19 pandemic response is a careful balance — protecting our communities and also keeping open as much as we can that is safe to do so. 

It is about being able to do some things at a moderate level, instead of completely closing most places and activities, as we have seen elsewhere. A walk with a friend allows you to see each other, to have that important connection and still remain safe. This is the modified approach we want to continue. 

To make this work for everyone, we need businesses to have robust safety plans and closely follow all of the public health orders. We also need everyone to do the same: to follow the orders we have in place and use our layers of protection, whether we are out at a restaurant, work, school or home. 

To support your efforts, where we see locations with high transmissions, public health teams and WorkSafeBC will increase surveillance, focus their investigations and, if need be, take further action to close the gap."

You can can review more of today's Provincial statement here.  

BC CDC data for British Columbia as of February 3, 2020

BC CDC data for Northern Health Region as of February 3, 2020

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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