Monday's COVID 19 review notes of just under 1500 new cases over three days; launch of vaccination roll out program

Monday's three day compilation of case reports did not deliver many surprises, with much the same level of new cases realized Saturday through today across British Columbia, with a three day total at just under 1500, or an average of 500 per day.

In their statement for the day, Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix also relayed continued concern over the growing number of variants of the COVID-19 coronavirus, something that Health officials remain watchful of..

“Today, we are reporting on three periods: Feb. 26 to 27, we had 532 new cases, Feb. 27 to 28, we had 508 new cases and in the last 24 hours, we had a further 438 new cases. 

This results in a total of 1,478 new cases, with no new epi-linked cases, for a total of 80,672 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 4,464 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 8,210 people under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 74,776 people who tested positive have recovered. 

Of the active cases, 236 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 65 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation. 

There have been eight new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,363 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones to COVID-19."

Across the province, the weekend case review by Health Authority was as follows:  327 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 857 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 88 in the Island Health region, and 92 in the Interior Health region. 

There were 114 new cases  in the Northern Health region, which brings the Total of COVID cases across the Northern region to 4,625 since the coronavirus was first reported in BC in early 2020.

The weekend saw no new cases of COVID reported from people in British Columbia who reside outside of Canada. 

On the growing concerns over variants, held officials today observed that there have been 42 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 158 cases. 

Of the total cases, 10 cases are active and the remaining people have recovered. This includes 137 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant and 21 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant. 

Towards the last few days of the Phase one vaccination program., to date, 275,681 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 83,777 of which are second doses.  There have been eight new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,363 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones to COVID-19.

Earlier today, Doctor Henry and Doctor Penny Ballem outlined the provincial vaccination strategy set to launch later this month. 

Following their information session, Northern Health outlined how that strategy would be implemented across Northern British Columbia, you can explore more on those themes from our blog item from this morning. 
 

You can review the full statement for Monday here.  

BC CDC Data for British Columbia for March 1 2021

BC CDC Data for Northern Health Region for March 1 2021

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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