Three deaths, 707 new COVID cases identified in the interior over the weekend
The active COVID-19 case count for the interior is now 2,424 after 707 new cases were identified in the region over the weekend.
The new cases were part of 1,853 recorded across the province where there are now 5,918 active cases.
As of Monday afternoon, there are 176 British Columbians in hospital due to COVID-19, 91 of whom are in intensive care.
Another seven death connected to COVID -9 were also recorded over the weekend, including three from the interior. A total of 1,814 British Columbians have died due to complications from COVID-19.
There were four new health-care facility outbreaks recorded in the province, including the Rose Woods Village which is in the Interior Health region. The outbreaks in the interior are located at:
- Village at Mill Creek – second floor (Kelowna): two residents, two staff
- Cottonwoods Care Centre (Kelowna): 19 residents, 11 staff, six deaths
- Spring Valley Care Centre (Kelowna): seven residents, one staff, one death
- Hawthorn Park (Kelowna): one resident, four staff
- David Lloyd Jones (Kelowna): 40 residents, 14 staff, five deaths
- Sun Pointe Village (Kelowna): five residents
- Brookhaven Care Centre (West Kelowna): 10 residents, 20 staff, two deaths
- Nelson Jubilee Manor (Nelson): two residents, three staff, two deaths
- Kootenay Street Village (Cranbrook): one resident, two staff
- Nicola Meadows (Merritt): four residents, three staff, one death
- Hardy View Lodge (Grand Forks): one resident, one staff
- Rose Woods Village (Trail): two residents
In the meantime, the provincial first dose vaccination rate rose to 84.2 per cent Monday, and 76.4 per cent of British Columbians aged 12 and older have now received both jabs.
The province also reports that there had been 4,565 new cases recorded between August 20 and 26. Of those new cases, 3,255, or 71.3 per cent, were unvaccinated individuals, 10.4 per cent, or 477, were partially vaccinated, and 18.2 per cent, or 833 individuals, were double dosed.
There were 217 hospitalizations between August 13 and 26. Of those, 79.3 per cent, or 172 individuals, were unvaccinated, 14, or 6.5 per cent, were partially vaccinated, and 31, or 14.3 per cent, were fully vaccinated.