District Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in BC increased in the last 24 hours, but fewer people were hospitalized and hospitalized in intensive care at Home Health. BC reports 291 new COVID-19 cases, for a total of 356,252 cases in the province. New cases include:
Fraser Health: 60 Vancouver Coastal Health: 53 Internal health: 102 Northern Health: 19 Health of the island: 57
In the last 24 hours, six new deaths were recorded, one of which was in Internal Health. There were three at Northern Health and one each at Fraser Health and Island Health.
276 people were treated with COVID-19 throughout the province and 43 are treated in the intensive care unit. At Home Health, there were 62 at the hospital on Wednesday, six of whom were in the intensive care unit. That’s down from 65 inpatients and nine in intensive care on Tuesday. As of Wednesday, 93.5% of eligible individuals 12 years of age and older in BC received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.1% received the second dose and 57.5% received a third dose. From March 22 to 28, those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.7% of cases. From March 15-28, they corresponded to 20.4% of hospitalizations. Last week, cases per 100,000 population after age adjustment (March 22-28)
Unvaccinated: 73.3 Partially vaccinated: 15.8 Fully vaccinated: 28.0
In the last two weeks, cases of hospitalization per 100,000 population after the age adjustment (March 15-28)
Unvaccinated: 18.6 Partially vaccinated: 11.9 Fully vaccinated: 6.1
Cases from last week (March 22-28) – Total 1,583
Unvaccinated: 256 (16.2%) Partially vaccinated: 23 (1.5%) Fully vaccinated: 1,304 (82.3%)
Cases have been hospitalized in the last two weeks (March 15-28) – Total 363
Unvaccinated: 61 (16.8%) Partially vaccinated: 13 (3.6%) Fully vaccinated: 289 (79.6%)
