Northern Health accounted for 20 new cases of COVID-19, according to B.C. Centre for Disease Control numbers issued Wednesday - among the lowest counts seen for the region in several weeks.
Active cases in Northern Health stood at 264, also among the lowest totals seen in several weeks.
However, the region was also home to one of the two deaths in the province - the other was in Fraser Health - and pushed the running total on that front to 105.
As of Tuesday, the seven-day moving average for new cases in Northern Health was 44.7 per day, and the positivity rate was 13.6 cases per 100 tests, compared to 6.8 for the province as a whole.
Hospitalizations stood at 34, down by seven from the day before while patients in intensive care held steady at 12.
Province-wide, officials reported 456 new cases and two more deaths, pushing the death toll in the province to 1,338.
There were 4,668 active cases, including 237 people who are hospitalized, and close to 8,000 people are being monitored after exposure to known cases.
They said 230,875 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C. to date, including 62,608 second doses.
B.C. has confirmed 78,278 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
- with files from The Canadian Press
