COVID case numbers continue to edge higher in B.C. and Interior Health

It was another bad day on the COVID-19 front for B.C. with 813 new cases, including 208 in the Interior Health region.

Both those tallies are some of the highest in the past few weeks.

There were 11 more deaths from COVID in the last 24 hours with Interior Health being the only region not to record at least one. There have now been 1,953 B.C. residents who have died from the disease, according to a Ministry of Health news release issued today, Sept. 29.

There are 303 new cases in Fraser Health, 118 in Northern Health, 102 in Vancouver Coastal and 82 on Vancouver Island.

Out of 6,185 active cases in B.C., 1,281 are in Interior Health. There are 340 people in hospital in the province including 146 in intensive care.

The vaccination rate keeps moving up slowly, hitting 87.9% today for those 12 and over having one dose while 80.8% have two doses.

This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated with 64.9% of the new cases between Sept. 21 and 27 being among those who are unvaccinated. That group also accounted for 72.6% of people in hospital in the two weeks from Sept. 14 to 27.

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