COVID-19: Here are all the B C cases of the novel coronavirus in 2021 vancouversun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vancouversun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The new month has started basically where the old one left off as far as Covid-19 cases in British Columbia.The Health Ministry reported 1,478 on Mond.
Posted: Mar 01, 2021 4:34 PM PT | Last Updated: March 2
B.C. announced on Monday it is extending the time between the first and second doses of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to four months to make sure every adult has at least one dose of the vaccine by the end of July.(Ben Nelms/CBC)
Of the 4,464 known active cases, 236 people are in hospital, with 65 of those sick enough to be in intensive care units. Eight more people have died from the virus, raising the province s death toll from the virus to 1,363. Almost 92.7%, or 74,776 people, of those infected are said to be recovered because they have tested negative for the virus twice. Health officials are closely monitoring another 8,210 people because they have had known exposure to identified cases. Health officials provided 23,308 new doses of the vaccine over the weekend, with 13,339 of those doses being the recipient s first dose and 9,969 being the recipient s second dose. In total, 191,904 British Columbians have had one dose, while another 83,777 have had two doses.