Health Minister Adrian Dix told media that when new hospital beds that the province has added during the pandemic are taken into consideration, B.C.'s hospital occupancy rate is 70.4%. When new ICU beds are taken into consideration, the province's ICUs are at 52% occupancy. The number of people known to be carrying the virus in B.C. has also been on the decline. There are now 3,976 people who have been infected and have not yet tested negative multiple times, which is the process for considering people as having recovered. That is the lowest total since November 6, when there were 3,741 people with active infections. Given that B.C. had a record 10,039 people with active infections on December 14, that metric has fallen considerably.