The COVID-19 pandemic claimed the lives of four people in the Northern Health region last week, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported on Thursday.
Starting April 7, the province has moved to reporting COVID-19 data on a weekly basis, from Thursday to Thursday.
As of Thursday, the pandemic had claimed a total of 330 lives in Northern Health region.
The B.C. CDC reported 145 new cases of COVID-19 in the north over the past week. On Thursday there were 16 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in northern B.C., of which three were in critical care.
The province stopped reporting the number of active cases in February, but since the start of the pandemic there have been a total of 29,443 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region.
As of Thursday, a total of 528,356 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in the Northern Health region. As of April 5, 87 per cent of people aged five and older in the Prince George local health area had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
