Over 100,000 B.C. vaccinations against COVID-19

Jan 21, 2021 | 3:39 PM Pete McIntyre

While more cases are being diagnosed and people continue to pass away from COVID-19, the effort to innoculate B.C. residents has reached an early milestone.

“To date, 104,901 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 1,680 of which are second doses,” Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in her Thursday briefing.

There were 564 new cases, including eight epi-linked cases, for a total of 62,976 cases.
There are 4,450 active cases of COVID-19 in the province.
There are 309 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 68 of whom are in intensive care.
6,816 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases, and a further 56,010 people who tested positive have recovered.
There have been 15 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,119 deaths.

“Since we last reported, we have had 111 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 234 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 47 in the Island Health region, 95 in the Interior Health region, 76 in the Northern Health region and one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada.

There have been no new health care outbreaks.

“There is a community cluster in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of the province, in and around Williams Lake. We remind people to pay close attention to how they are feeling and to immediately arrange to get tested if they are feeling unwell with symptoms of COVID-19,” Henry said. “Despite our COVID-19 curve trending in the right direction, we continue to have new outbreaks, community clusters and high numbers of new cases. COVID-19 continues to spread widely in our communities.