Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry (Gov BC/Flickr)
British Columbia health officials announced 694 new test-positive COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the province to 133,619.
During a press conference, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said that broken down by specific health region, this equates to 153 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 445 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 17 in the Island Health region, 52 in the Interior Health region, and 27 in the Northern Health region.
There are 6,802 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 457 in hospital with the virus, and of these, 154 are in intensive care.
VICTORIA Provincial health officials identified 17 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Island region Thursday. The new cases were among 694 cases found across British Columbia over the past 24 hours. The Island Health region has now recorded 4,784 cases of COVID-19 and 38 deaths since the pandemic began. One more person in B.C. has died of COVID-19, health officials announced Thursday, bringing the province’s pandemic death toll to 1,595. Health Minister Adrian Dix said the death was recorded in the Interior Health region. Transmission rates across Vancouver Island have been in steady decline since early last month, when a high of 80 new cases was reported on April 9.
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“Eligible workers will hear from their employers about how to register and book an appointment using a unique access code,” VCH explained on Twitter.
We’re happy to share that first dose COVID-19 vaccines are now available for priority frontline workers age 18+ through the Provincial Vaccination Program.
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Fraser Health Authority also announced this week that essential workers in the region would be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, including school staff, childcare workers, first responders, and grocery store employees.
VANCOUVER B.C. has recorded its first case of a rare response to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine that causes blood clots. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced during a news conference on Thursday that the province had seen its first case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia - or VITT. The patient who developed the condition is a woman in her 40s, Henry said, adding that the patient is in stable condition and receiving treatment in hospital in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. VITT happens after about one in every 100,000 doses of AstraZeneca, the provincial health officer said, noting that there is a test to determine if a person has developed the syndrome and there is treatment available.
BC reports 697 new COVID cases and nearly 2 million people vaccinated
BC health officials reported 697 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.
That brings the province s active case to 7,161, down from the 8,089 recorded at this time last week.
Of the new cases, 142 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 456 were in the Fraser Health region, 19 were in Island Health, 65 were in Interior Health, and 14 were in Northern Health.
There are currently 486 people in hospital with the virus, down 14 patients from last Tuesday.
Of those hospitalized with COVID-19, 164 are in ICU or critical care.
One death has been attributed to the virus in the past 24 hours.