As of Saturday, Northern Health had administered 9,789 doses of vaccine to a population of about 288,000, which works out to a rate of about 34 per 1,000 people or 3.4 per cent of the total population. Every other health region in the province has vaccinated five per cent or more of its population. “I’m just totally disappointed, somebody’s dropping the ball,” said the 72-year-old Duncan. “Not even 10,000 people in northern B.C. have received their first shot, and if you’re in Vancouver Island 47,000 people have had their first shots. I know there is a population difference but…” The province had received 261,912 first doses by Saturday, which works out to 5.3 per cent of the entire population, based on Duncan’s population estimate of 4.93 million, which is lower than the Statistics Canada estimate of 5.148 million in 2020.