BC COVID-19 Update – February 22, 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 three periods: from Feb. 19 to 20, we had 504 new cases, from Feb. 20 to 21 we had 475 new cases, and in the last 24 hours we had a further 449 new cases.

“This results in a total of 1,428 new cases, for a total of 77,263 cases in British Columbia.

“There are 4,560 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 7,768 people under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases and a further 71,313 people who tested positive have recovered.

“Of the active cases, 223 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 63 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.

“Since we last reported, we have had 358 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 805 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 99 in the Island Health region, 67 in the Interior Health region, 99 in the Northern Health region and no new cases of people who reside outside of Canada.

“To date, 218,726 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 55,057 of which are second doses.

“There have been eight new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,335 deaths in British Columbia. We offer our condolences to everyone who has lost loved ones to COVID-19.