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287 COVID19 cases for Tuesday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 29 Mar, 2022 03:06 PM
  • 287 COVID19 cases for Tuesday

As of Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 90.8% (4,527,947) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3% (4,350,994) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.4% (4,331,521) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91% (4,220,194) have received their second dose and 57.5% (2,663,607) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.8% (4,056,500) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.5% (3,955,515) have received their second dose and 59.2% (2,561,341) have received a third dose.

B.C. is reporting 287 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 355,935 cases in the province.

Note: The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh.

The new cases include:

  • Fraser Health: 75
  • Vancouver Coastal Health: 67
  • Interior Health: 61
  • Northern Health: 21
  • Island Health: 63
  • People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 273 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 46 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, one new death (Northern Health) has been reported, for an overall total of 2,990.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Ayre Manor (Island Health), for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

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

From March 21-27, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 16.5% of cases and from March 14-27, they accounted for 22.3% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 21-27) - Total 1,517

  • Not vaccinated: 230 (15.2%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 20 (1.3%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 1,267 (83.5%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 14-27) - Total 313

  • Not vaccinated: 58 (18.5%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 12 (3.8%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 243 (77.7%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 21-27)

  • Not vaccinated: 65.7
  • Partially vaccinated: 15.1
  • Fully vaccinated: 27.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 14-27)

  • Not vaccinated: 17.5
  • Partially vaccinated: 10.8
  • Fully vaccinated: 5.1

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,484,833 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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