B.C.’s COVID-19 update for February 22

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Posted: February 22, 2022

Over a four-day period, B.C. is February 22 reporting 2,103 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 345,734 cases in the province:

* Feb. 18-19: 631 new cases;

* Feb. 19-20: 571 new cases;

* Feb. 20-21: 424 new cases;

* Feb. 21-22: 477 new cases.

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

The new cases include:

* Interior Health: 610

* Fraser Health: 615

* Vancouver Coastal Health: 326

* Northern Health: 215

* Island Health: 337

* People who reside outside of Canada: zero

There are 688 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 108 are in intensive care.

In the past 96 hours, 44 new deaths have been reported, for a total of 2,830.

The new deaths include seven in Interior Health, 11 in Fraser Health, 17 in Vancouver Coastal Health, four in Northern Health and five in Island Health.

There have been four new health-care facility outbreaks at Hillside Village, Polson Long Term Care, Mission Creek Landing and Williams Lake Seniors Village (all in Interior Health).

The outbreaks at Mountainview Village, Noric House, Poplar Ridge, Pinegrove Care Centre (Interior Health), Tsawaayuus Rainbow Gardens and Berwick on The Lake (Island Health) have been declared over, for a total of 31 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.

As of Tuesday, Feb. 22, 90.5% (4,512,730) of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 85.9% (4,282,333) have received their second dose.

In addition, 93.2% (4,319,917) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 90.6% (4,200,404) received their second dose and 54.9% (2,542,724) have received a third dose.

Also, 93.5% (4,046,012) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose, 91.1% (3,938,486) received their second dose and 57.0% (2,465,130) have received a third dose.

From Feb. 11-17, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 21.4% of cases. From Feb. 4-17, they accounted for 32.0% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Feb. 11-17) – Total 4,945

* Not vaccinated: 891 (18.0%)

* Partially vaccinated: 169 (3.4%)

* Fully vaccinated: 3,885 (78.6%)

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Feb. 4-17) – Total 802

* Not vaccinated: 225 (28.0%)

* Partially vaccinated: 32 (4.0%)

* Fully vaccinated: 545 (68.0%)

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Feb. 11-17)

* Not vaccinated: 220.0

* Partially vaccinated: 77.9