BC COVID-19 Update – February 16, 2021

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia:

“Today, we are reporting on four periods. From Feb. 12 to 13, we had 452 new cases. From Feb. 13 to 14, we had 431 new cases. From Feb. 14 to 15, we had 348 new cases and in the last 24-hours, we had a further 302 new cases.

“This results in a total of 1,533 new cases, including six epi-linked cases over the previous four days, for a total of 74,283 cases in British Columbia.

“There are 4,189 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. There are 231 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 74 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

“Currently, 7,138 people are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 68,705 people who tested positive have recovered.

“Since we last reported, we have had 392 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 856 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 58 in the Island Health region, 92 in the Interior Health region, 135 in the Northern Health region and no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada.

“To date, 171,755 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 22,914 of which are second doses.

“There have been 26 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,314 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones to COVID-19.

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Dr. Bonnie Henry has provided the latest COVID-19 figures in BC.

(Previous numbers in brackets)

New Cases – 1,533 *Day 1-452, Day 2-431, Day 3-348, Day 4-302

Total Cases – 74,533 (72,750)

Active Cases – 4,189 (4,347)

Patients in Hospital – 231 (226)

Patients in ICU – 74 (61)

New Deaths – 26

Totals Deaths – 1,314 (1,288)

 

Health region breakdown of new cases

Vancouver Coastal – +392

Fraser – +856

Island – +58

Interior – +92

Northern – +135

Outside Canada – +0

 

More to come.