British Columbia health officials reported 204 new cases of COVID-19 for the entire province on Friday, with 14 linked to the Island Health region.
Within the Island Health region, there is currently a total of 51 active COVID-19 cases.
The 204 cases mark the highest daily total since June 5.
In a statement released to the media, Dr. Bonnie Henry says that 51 are in hospital with 20 people in critical care as a result of the virus. There are currently 1,055 active cases in British Columbia.
Since Wednesday’s numbers, there have been 23 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 58 in the Fraser Health region, 14 in the Island Health region, 107 in the Interior Health region, two in the Northern Health region and no cases for people who reside outside of Canada.
There were zero additional deaths related to the virus on Thursday. This keeps the provincial death total over the course of the pandemic to 1,771.
Also as of Thursday, the total number of cases in British Columbia over the course of the pandemic has reached 148,842.
As for the Province’s vaccination program, B.C. has now administered a total of 6,732,309 doses of COVID-19 immunizations.
Health officials say that equates to first doses for 81.9 per cent of all eligible adult British Columbians and 81.0 per cent of all eligible people 12 and older.
In addition, 66.8 per cent of all eligible adults have received their second dose, totalling 2,890,948 residents.
Graham Cox
