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420 COVID cases for Friday

Darpan News Desk BC Government news, 21 May, 2021 03:20 PM
  • 420 COVID cases for Friday

COVID-19 cases in BC continue to go down. There are 420 new cases, for a total of 141,373 cases in British Columbia.

The weekly day rolling average is now 438 new cases per day, the  lowest it has been since February 17. 

There have been 6 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,667 deaths in British Columbia.

There are 4,507 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and a further 135,068 people who tested positive have recovered.

There are 319 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 107 of whom are in intensive care.

New cases by health authority Coastal - 84 Fraser - 240 Island - 7 Interior - 58 Northern - 31

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