COVID-19 pandemic claims another life in the Northern Health region

The COVID-19 pandemic claimed a life in the Northern Health region over the weekend, the B.C. Ministry of Health reported on Monday.
The death brings the region’s death toll from the pandemic to 271, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported on Monday.
A total of 81 new cases were reported in the Northern Health region over the weekend, and 236 cases were active in the region as of Monday.
As of Monday, nine people were hospitalized in the north with COVID-19, of which six were listed in intensive care.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 18,285 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region, of which 17,768 people have recovered.
A total of 416,314 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the Northern Health region as of Monday.
As of Sunday, 88 per cent of people aged 12 and older in the Prince George local health area had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 83 per cent had received two doses.
In addition, 22 per cent of children aged five to 11 in the Prince George area had received their first dose of vaccine, and  66 per cent of those 70 and older had received a third booster shot.