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336 COVID19 cases for Thursday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 10 Mar, 2022 04:32 PM
  • 336 COVID19 cases for Thursday

As of Thursday, March 10, 2022, 90.7% (4,521,678) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 86.6% (4,316,745) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.3% (4,326,900) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 90.9% (4,211,317) received their second dose and 56.4% (2,613,270) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.7% (4,052,277) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.3% (3,947,982) received their second dose, and 58.3% (2,521,344) have received a third dose.

B.C. is reporting 336 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 351,751 cases in the province.

The new cases include:

  • Fraser Health: 65
  • Vancouver Coastal Health: 49
  • Interior Health: 115
  • Northern Health: 54
  • Island Health: 53
  • People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 388 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 52 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, four new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,932.

Note: One reported death has been removed from the total due to a data correction.

The new deaths include:

  • Fraser Health: three
  • Interior Health: one

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Yucalta Lodge (Island Health). The outbreaks at Overlander Residential Care and Gillis House (Interior Health) have been declared over, for a total of 14 facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

  • long-term care:
    • Ponderosa, Hillside Village, Mission Creek Landing, Williams Lake Seniors Village (Interior Health)
    • Sidney Care Home, Selkirk Seniors Village, Berwick House Gordon Head, The Heights at Mt. View, Greenwoods, Parkwood Court, Luther Court and Yucalta Lodge (Island Health)
  • acute care:
    • Mission Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)
  • assisted or independent living:
    • Fischer Place (Interior Health)

From March 2-8, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 18.0% of cases. From Feb. 23 to March 8, they accounted for 29.0% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 2-8) - Total 2,108

  • Not vaccinated: 330 (15.7%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 49 (2.3%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 1,729 (82.0%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 23 to March 8) - Total 386

  • Not vaccinated: 91 (23.6%)
  • Partially vaccinated: 21 (5.4%)
  • Fully vaccinated: 274 (71.0%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 2-8)

  • Not vaccinated: 90.9
  • Partially vaccinated: 29.3
  • Fully vaccinated: 37.0

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 23 to March 8)

  • Not vaccinated: 25.1
  • Partially vaccinated: 19.6
  • Fully vaccinated: 5.8

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,393,545 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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