COVID-19 claimed another life in the Northern Health region on Wednesday, bringing the region’s death toll from the pandemic to 263.
The B.C. Ministry of Health reported 49 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region on Wednesday. The number of active cases in the north increased to 276, up from 261 active cases on Tuesday, according to data released by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
There were 21 people hospitalized with COVID in Northern Health, 10 of which were in intensive care, the B.C. CDC reported.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 17,926 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Health region, of which 17,372 people have recovered.
During the week on Nov. 21 to Nov. 27, 97 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the
A total of 409,306 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the Northern Health region, as of Wednesday.
As of Dec. 6, five per cent of children aged five to 11 years old had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the
Northern Health recently reported a COVID-19 exposure at
Throughout B.C., 85.8 per cent of eligible people (aged five and up) had received their first does of COVID-19 vaccine and 82.1 per cent had two doses as of Wednesday. Eleven per cent of British Columbians had received a third booster shot as of Wednesday.
Between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6, 55.3 per cent of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. were in unvaccinated people. Between Nov. 23 and Dec. 6, 64.5 per cent of people hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated, the Ministry of Health reported.
During those periods, the unvaccinated were 7.7 times as likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 as fully vaccinated people (170.5 cases per 100,000 people vs. 22.1 cases per 100,000) and 19.7 times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 (27.6 hospitalizations per 100,000 people vs. 1.4 hospitalizations per 100,000).
