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218 COVID19 cases for Friday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 25 Mar, 2022 03:20 PM
  • 218 COVID19 cases for Friday

As of Friday, March 25, 2022, 90.8% (4,526,941) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.2% (4,344,849) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.4% (4,330,844) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.0% (4,218,752) received their second dose and 57.3% (2,654,589) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.8% (4,055,879) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.4% (3,954,301) received their second dose and 59.0% (2,553,879) have received a third dose.

B.C. is reporting 218 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 355,092 cases in the province.

The new cases include:

  • Fraser Health: 45
  • Vancouver Coastal Health: 28
  • Interior Health: 80
  • Northern Health: 18
  • Island Health: 47
  • People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 260 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 50 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, two new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,983.

The new deaths include:

  • Vancouver Coastal Health: one
  • Northern Health: one

There have been three new health-care facility outbreaks at Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health), for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

  • long-term care:
    • Hillside Village (Interior Health)
    • The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health)
  • acute care:
    • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)
  • assisted or independent living:
    • none

From March 17-23, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 15.8% of cases.
From March 10-23, they accounted for 26.2% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 17-23) - Total 1,485

  • Not vaccinated: 211 (14.2%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 24 (1.6%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 1,250 (84.2%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 10-23) - Total 386

  • Not vaccinated: 84 (21.8%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 17 (4.4%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 285 (73.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 17-23)

  • Not vaccinated: 60.6
  • Partially vaccinated: 18.0
  • Fully vaccinated: 26.7

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 10-23)

  • Not vaccinated: 23.9
  • Partially vaccinated: 15.5
  • Fully vaccinated: 6.0

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,468,257 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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