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9,332 COVID19 cases over 3 days

Darpan News Desk , 03 Jan, 2022 06:40 PM

Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 9,332 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 264,181 cases in the province:

Dec. 31, 2021 - Jan. 1, 2022: 4,033 new cases
Jan. 1-2, 2022: 3,069 new cases
Jan. 2-3, 2022: 2,230 new cases

Note: case counts provided today are preliminary.

The new cases include:

4,859 new cases in Fraser Health
1,797 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health
1,185 new cases in Interior Health
374 new cases in Northern Health
1,117 new cases in Island Health

Note: The Ministry of Health will return to regular reporting of COVID-19 cases, vaccinations, hospitalizations and deaths, and cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status, on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

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