BC health officials report 2,090 new COVID-19 cases for a two-day period on Saturday, April 3rd

The BC Ministry of Health reported 2,090 new cases of COVID-19 for a two-day period on Saturday, April 3rd.

There have been a total of 102,970 cases since the pandemic began in BC.

New cases April 1st to April 2nd: 1,018
New cases April 2nd to April 3rd: 1,072

New cases were reported in these health regions:

Vancouver Coastal Health: 709
Fraser Health: 1,052
Island Health: 147
Interior Health: 149
Northern Health: 33

90 people are in ICU.

Please note that some data was not available over the long weekend, including data on variants and hospitalizations.

Outbreaks

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 will update their numbers on Tuesday, April 6th.

To date, 856,801 (+69,152) doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in BC, 87,455 (+61) of which are second doses.

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At the time of this publication, 131,322,431 cases of COVID-19 had been recorded worldwide. 2,858,040 have died, and 105,714,591 have recovered.