As of Wednesday, Sept. 29, 87.9% (4,074,112) of eligible people 12 and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 80.8% (3,745,457) have received their second dose.

In addition, 88.4% (3,823,614) of all eligible adults in B.C. have received their first dose and 81.6% (3,529,426) received their second dose.

B.C. is reporting 813 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 186,245 cases in the province

Note: The numbers of total and new cases are provisional due to a delayed data refresh and will be verified once confirmed.

There are 6,185 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 177,729 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 340 individuals are in hospital and 146 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

Note: Intensive care numbers are a subset of the total in hospital. They are not in addition to the number of people in hospital.

The new/active cases include:

* 208 new cases in Interior Health (total active cases: 1,281);

* 303 new cases in Fraser Health (total active cases: 2,316);

* 102 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health (total active cases: 911);

* 118 new cases in Northern Health (total active cases: 915);

* 82 new cases in Island Health (total active cases: 704).

In the past 24 hours, 11 new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 1,953.

There have been two new outbreaks at Royal Inland Hospital (Interior Health) and University Hospital of Northern BC (Northern Health)

Two outbreaks have been declared over at Hillside Village and Village at Mill Creek – second floor (Interior Health) for a total of 22 active outbreaks.

From Sept. 21-27, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 71.9% of cases and from Sept. 14-27 they accounted for 80.8% of hospitalizations.

Past week cases (Sept. 21-27) – Total 5,121
Not vaccinated: 3,324 (64.9%);
Partially vaccinated: 361 (7.0%);
Fully vaccinated: 1,436 (28.0%).

Past two weeks cases hospitalized (Sept. 14-27) – Total 438
Not vaccinated: 318 (72.6%);
Partially vaccinated: 36 (8.2%);
Fully vaccinated: 84 (19.2%).

Past week, cases per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 21-27) 
Not vaccinated: 300.6;
Partially vaccinated: 97.6;
Fully vaccinated: 35.6.

Past two weeks, cases hospitalized per 100,000 population after adjusting for age (Sept. 14-27)
Not vaccinated: 46.8;
Partially vaccinated: 15.0;
Fully vaccinated: 1.9.

After factoring for age, people not vaccinated are 24.6 times more likely to be hospitalized than those fully vaccinated.

Since December 2020, the province has administered 7,831,229 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

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