BC COVID-19 Update – March 5, 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 634 new cases, including three epi-linked cases, for a total of 83,107 cases in British Columbia.

“There are 4,901 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 8,861 people under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases. A further 76,752 people who tested positive have recovered.

“Of the active cases, 255 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 66 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

“Since we last reported, we have had 149 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 365 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 26 in the Island Health region, 33 in the Interior Health region, 60 in the Northern Health region and one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada.

“There have been four new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 250 cases. Of the total cases, 12 are active and the remaining people have recovered. This includes 222 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant and 28 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant.

“To date, 311,208 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 86,865 of which are second doses.

“There have been four new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,380 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones to COVID-19.