B.C. COVID cases on the rise, additional ‘measures’ to be announced

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Interior Health had 268 new cases today (up from 131 Friday), and active cases are down by 40 to 648. Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health had the most new cases with 909 and 877 respectively.

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“Public health is monitoring the increase in cases in British Columbia and developments in other jurisdictions, and will outline additional COVID-19 measures during Tuesday’s regular media briefing,” the Health Ministry’s daily update stated.

B.C.’s new COVID restrictions took effect today which include limiting capacities on venues of over 1,000 seats to 50 per cent, and restricting the number of people able to attend indoor personal gatherings.

There are 5,435 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 185 people in hospital and 77 in intensive care.

Since Friday, three more people have died of COVID issues, one each in the Fraser, Northern and Island Health regions.

From Dec. 10–16, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 39.4 per cent of cases. From Dec. 3–16, they accounted for 71.4 per cent of hospitalizations.

As of today, 87.3 per cent of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 82.6 per cent have had two doses and 17 per cent (726,994) have received a third dose.