COVID-19 cases on the decline in Interior, B.C.

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The report showed that during the week in question there were 43 people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in the Interior and 282 in B.C.

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Those figures mark declines from the 76 hospitalizations in the Interior and 388 in B.C. the week before.

Fraser Health had the most hospitalizations at 129 over the course of the week, followed by Vancouver Coastal Health at 55, then Interior Health.

COVID-19 deaths dropped by about half in the new report, which showed eight deaths in the Interior and 42 in the province.

Those figures are down from the 14 in the Interior and 86 deaths in all of B.C. the week before.

The Interior had the third-highest death count after Fraser Health’s 14 and Vancouver Coastal’s 13.

To date, there have been 370,559 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in B.C., 66,085 of which were recorded in the Interior.

There have also been 3,002 British Columbians who have died due to COVID-19, 367 of whom were in the Interior.

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