B.C. February 15 reports 519 new cases of COVID-19, including nine epi-linked cases, for a total of 341,532 cases in the province.

Note: Although 519 new cases are reported today, the total number of cases have only increased by 246 from yesterday. This has resulted in no new cases reported in Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health and a decrease in the total number of cases in these health authorities compared to yesterday. This is due to data reconciliation from switching between two reporting systems after a system-wide downtime over the past weekend.

The new cases include:

* Interior Health: 287

* Fraser Health: zero

* Vancouver Coastal Health: zero

* Northern Health: 145

* Island Health: 78

There are 787 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 124 are in intensive care.

In the past 24 hours, two new deaths (Northern Health) have been reported, for a total of 2,766.

There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at The Heights at Mt. View (Island Health). The outbreak at Island View Place (Island Health) has been declared over, for a total of 39 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

As of Tuesday, Feb. 15, 90.4% (4,506,631) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 85.3% (4,252,281) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.1% (4,316,016) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 90.5% (4,194,522) received their second dose and 53.0% (2,454,932) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.5% (4,042,557) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 90.9% (3,933,436) received their second dose and 55.5% (2,400,288) have received a third dose.

Note: Due to a delayed refresh in BCCDC data, the update on cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status is unavailable today.

Since December 2020, the province has administered 11,158,060 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

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