The BC Ministry of Health reported 550 new cases of COVID-19 across the province for Tuesday, March 9th for a total of 85,119 cases since the pandemic began.
New cases were reported in these health regions:
Vancouver Coastal Health: 133
Fraser Health: 319
Island Health: 7
Interior Health: 36
Northern Health: 52
The number of active cases in B.C. increased from 4,854 to 4,869.
There are now a total of 249 people in hospital due to COVID-19, 68 of whom are in critical care — ICU or acute care units.
Two new people have died from COVID-related causes, bringing the provincial death toll to 1,393.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the first death due to COVID-19.
8,723 people are under active public health monitoring after exposure to COVID-19.
A total of 78,770 people have recovered from novel coronavirus.
Outbreaks
There has been one new health-care facility outbreak at Fleetwood Place in the Fraser Health region.
The outbreaks at Fleetwood Villa and Glacier View Lodge are now over.
As of yesterday, there are ten active outbreaks in long-term facilities and eight in acute-care facilities.
Outbreaks and other exposure events can be linked to from the BC Centre for Disease Control website.
More COVID-19 coverage from Victoria Buzz, including local exposures and outbreaks.
Island Health
Island Health is reporting eight new COVID-19 cases today, March 8th, for a total of 2,580 since the pandemic began.
There are 213 active cases remaining in the region, according to Island Health. By Health Service Delivery Area, they are:
- South Island: 47 (-1) | Total cases: 663 (+2)
- Central Island: 116 (-14)| Total cases: 1,481 (+3)
- North Island: 51 (-2) | Total cases: 436 (+3)
No new deaths were reported in the Island Health region. There are a total of 28 deaths to date.
14 people are currently hospitalized in the Island Health region, including 1 person in intensive care units.
Vaccinations and Variants
To date, 343,381 (+10,054) doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C., 86,938 (+73) of which are second doses.
There have been 182 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province.
Of the total number of 576 confirmed variant cases, 113 cases are active and the remaining people have recovered.
Of the total, 530 cases were of the UK variant, 33 cases were of the South Africa variant, and 13 cases were of a previously unreported Brazil variant.
Some links include:
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- Details on the latest provincial restrictions
- BCCDC information on how to get tested
- Support for mental health and wellbeing
At the time of this publication, 118,124,259 cases of COVID-19 had been recorded worldwide. 2,620,408 have died, and 93,810,908 have recovered.
