Cases of COVID-19 again rose above 200 after two consecutive days of below 200 but there were no new deaths Tuesday. There are 254 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 48 are in intensive care.

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff

VICTORIA – Cases of COVID-19 again rose above 200 after two consecutive days of below 200 but there were no new deaths Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, March 22, 90.8% (4,525,621) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.1% (4,339,973) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.4% (4,329,816) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 91.0% (4,217,052) received their second dose and 57.1% (2,646,447) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.8% (4,054,932) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.4% (3,952,848) received their second dose and 58.9% (2,547,329) have received a third dose.

B.C. is reporting 259 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 354,343 cases in the province.

The numbers of new and total cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh.

The new cases include:

* Fraser Health: 47

* Vancouver Coastal Health: 63

* Interior Health: 76

* Northern Health: 23

* Island Health: 50

* People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 254 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 48 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, no new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,974.

There have been no new health-care facility outbreaks. The outbreaks at Ponderosa (Interior Health), Berwick House Gordon Head and Luther Court (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of five facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including:

* long-term care:
* Hillside Village (Interior Health)

* The Heights at Mt. View, Yucalta Lodge and Selkirk Seniors Village (Island Health)

* acute care:
* Surrey Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health)

* assisted or independent living:
* none

From March 14-20, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 16.2% of cases. From March 7-20, they accounted for 26.2% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (March 14-20) - Total 1,403

* Not vaccinated: 202 (14.4%)

* Partially vaccinated: 25 (1.8%)

* Fully vaccinated: 1,176 (83.8%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (March 7-20) - Total 344

* Not vaccinated: 80 (23.3%)

* Partially vaccinated: 10 (2.9%)

* Fully vaccinated: 254 (73.8%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 14-20)

* Not vaccinated: 58.0

* Partially vaccinated: 16.8

* Fully vaccinated: 25.2

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (March 7-20

* Not vaccinated: 22.5

* Partially vaccinated: 9.1

* Fully vaccinated: 5.4

Since December 2020, the Province has administered 11,453,778 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.