The B.C. Ministry of Health reported a new COVID-related death in the Northern Health region on Monday.
The death brings the region’s death toll from the pandemic to 318 people. A total of 79 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the Northern Health region over the weekend.
The province has stopped reporting the number of active cases.
As of Monday, 22 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Northern Region, including three in critical care, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported. That’s down from Friday, when 38 people – including six in critical care – were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 28,777 cases of COVID-19 in northern B.C.
As of Monday, 90.7 per cent of eligible British Columbians (aged five and older) have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 86.5 per cent had received two doses. In addition, 56.2 per cent of people aged 12 and older have received a booster dose.
A total of 11.38 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the province, including 521,794 doses in the Northern Health region.
As of March 3, 87 per cent of people aged five and older in the Prince George local health area had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 80 per cent had two doses, the B.C. CDC reported.
