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75 COVID19 cases for Thursday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 24 Jun, 2021 03:39 PM

There have been 75 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 147,346 cases in British Columbia. The rolling 7 day is now down to 79 new cases per day.

There have been 3 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,747 deaths in British Columbia.

In total, 4,652,087 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 1,122,024 of which are second doses.

77.5% of all adults in B.C. and 76.0% of those 12 and older have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, 25.9% of all adults in B.C. and 24.2% of those 12 and older have received their second dose.

There are currently 1,111 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Of the active cases, 113 individuals are currently hospitalized, 34 of whom are in intensive care. ICU number down 7.

Record breaking day for immunizations. The province administered 81,934 COVID-19 vaccines in the last reporting period.

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