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87 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

Darpan News Desk , 23 Jun, 2021 03:31 PM
  • 87 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

There have been 87 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 147,271 cases in British Columbia. The rolling 7 day average is now 86. That is the lowest since August 30.

Cases by health authority Coastal 13, Fraser - 30, Island - 3, Interior , 41 Northern -0

There are currently 1,119 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Of the active cases, 109 individuals are currently hospitalized, 41 of whom are in ICU. 

More than 4.5 million doses of vaccine have been delivered in total, and of those, slightly over one million were second shots.

There has been 1 new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 1,744 deaths in British Columbia.

In total, 4,570,153 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 1,051,910 of which are second doses.

77.2% of all adults in B.C. and 75.8% of those 12 and older have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, 24.3% of all adults in B.C. and 22.7% of those 12 and older have received their second dose.

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