Jump in new COVID cases in Interior Health

The Interior Health region had one of its worst days in the past month for new COVID-19 cases, recording 146 in the past 24 hours.

Case counts were high for the province as a whole with 497, including 138 in Fraser Health, 78 in Northern Health, 71 on Vancouver Island and 64 in Vancouver Coastal, according to a Ministry of Health media release issued today, Nov. 19.

There are now 4,320 active cases in the province with 358 people in hospital, 109 of whom are in intensive care.

There were three more deaths, but none in Interior Health, bringing the death toll to 2,293.

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The vaccination rates remained unchanged at 90.8% for those over 12 years of age with at least one dose and 87% for those with two doses.

From Nov. 4 to 17 those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 70.4% of hospitalizations.

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