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The spread of COVID-19 has slowed down but remains steady over 200 Wednesday while hospitalization has risen to over 300 since the weekend. There are 329 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 37 are in intensive care.
By DESIBUZZCanada Staff
VICTORIA – The spread of COVID-19 has slowed down but remains steady over 200 Wednesday while hospitalization has risen to over 300 since the weekend.
As of Wednesday, April 6, 90.9% (4,530,329) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.5% (4,359,332) have received their second dose.
In addition, 93.5% (4,333,488) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.1% (4,223,424) received their second dose and 57.8% (2,679,288) have received a third dose.
Also, 93.8% (4,058,313) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.5% (3,958,373) received their second dose and 59.5% (2,574,997) have received a third dose.
B.C. is reporting 216 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 357,974 cases in the province.
Note: The numbers of total and new cases are provisional and will be updated when verified in the weekly report starting Thursday, April 7, 2022.
The new cases include:
* Fraser Health: 55
* Vancouver Coastal Health: 31
* Interior Health: 76
* Northern Health: 15
* Island Health: 39
* People who reside outside of Canada: zero
There are 329 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 37 are in intensive care.
An update on number of deaths related to COVID-19 will be provided on Thursday, April 7.
There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreak at Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health) has been declared over, for a total of 11 facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:
* long-term care:
* Monashee Mews, Parkview Place, Overlander (Interior Health)
* The Heights at Mt. View, Selkirk Seniors Village, Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr, Sunridge Place Seniors and Ayre Manor (Island Health)
* acute care:
* Burnaby Hospital (Fraser Health) and Cowichan District Hospital (Island Health)
* assisted or independent living:
* none
As of April 6, people not vaccinated accounted for 12% of the B.C. population, while they account for 19% of COVID-19 critical care patients in hospital.
Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,511,781 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.
