The B.C. Ministry of Health reported 143 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region on Friday.
As of Feb. 10, the province and B.C. Centre for Disease Control are no longer reporting the number of active cases in each health authority, “as the values no longer reflect active community transmission numbers,” the B.C. CDC website says.
As of Friday, 43 people were hospitalized, including 13 in critical care, in the Northern Health region, the B.C. CDC reported. A total of 846 British Columbians were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday, including 136 in intensive care.
No new COVID-related deaths were reported in northern B.C. o n Friday, leaving the region’s death toll at 291. Throughout the province, 17 new deaths were reported, bringing B.C.’s death toll from the pandemic up to 2,747.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 26,915 cases of COVID-19 reported in the Northern Health region.
As of Friday, nearly 11.07 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the province, including 510,720 in the Northern Health region.
Across the province, 90.3 per cent of eligible British Columbians (aged five and older) have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 85 per cent have had a second dose. In addition, 51.5 per cent of people aged 12 and older have had a third booster dose.
Between Feb. 3 and Feb. 9, 23.7 per cent of new COVID-19 cases were amongst people not fully vaccinated, the B.C. Ministry of Health reported. Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 9, those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 31.3 per cent of people hospitalized with COVID-19.
During that period, the unvaccinated were more than twice as likely to contract COVID-19 as the fully-vaccinated (349 cases per 100,000 unvaccinated people vs. 147.4 cases per 100,000 fully-vaccinated people.)
The unvaccinated were more than four times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than the fully vaccinated (88.2 hospitalizations per 100,000 unvaccinated people vs. 17.5 hospitalizations per 100,000 vaccinated people.
Due to a planned Provincial Health Services Authority network outage, daily COVID-19 reporting may be delayed on Monday.
