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44 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

Darpan News Desk , 30 Jun, 2021 04:51 PM

There are 44 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 147,621 cases in British Columbia. The rolling 7 day average is now 52 in terms of new COVID cases per day.

There are currently 816 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Of the active cases, 108 individuals are currently hospitalized, 34 of whom are in intensive care.

Cases by health authority Coastal -12 Fraser - 17 Island - 1 Interior - 14 Northern - ZERO.

5,002,916 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 1,421,506 of which are second doses.

There are ZERO NEW COVID-19 deaths in BC.

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