The B.C. Ministry of Health reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region on Friday.
As of Friday, there were 351 active cases in the region. There were 38 people hospitalized in the region with COVID-19, including eight in critical care, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported on Friday.
No new COVID-related deaths were reported in the region on Friday, leaving Northern Health’s death toll from the pandemic at 257.
Since the start of the pandemic there have been 17,740 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region, of which 17,119 people have recovered.
A total of 407,184 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the region.
As of Friday, 85.1 per cent of eligible British Columbians (ages five and up) had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 81.8 per cent were fully vaccinated.
Between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1, 54 per cent per cent of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. were in unvaccinated people. From Nov. 18 to Dec. 1, 61.4 per cent of people hospitalized with COVID were unvaccinated, the Ministry of Health reported.
The unvaccinated were 7.8 times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than the fully vaccinated (176.3 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated population vs. 22.6 cases per 100,000 fully-vaccinated people). In addition, the unvaccinated were 18.1 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people (32.6 hospitalizations per 100,000 unvaccinated people vs. 1.8 hospitalizations per 100,000 fully-vaccinated people.)
Across B.C., a total of 405 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Friday. There were 3,071 active cases as of Friday and 276 British Columbians were hospitalized with COVID-19, including 95 in intensive care.
