BC health officials to give live COVID-19 update on Monday afternoon

Health officials in British Columbia are scheduled to give a live COVID-19 update on Monday afternoon.

At 3 pm, a press conference will take place with Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.

On Friday, the province announced 740 new test-positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the province to 129,482. There are 7,886 active cases of COVID-19, with 11,727 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases.

Of the active cases, 511 individuals are currently hospitalized, 174 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.

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There have been four new COVID-19-related deaths, for a total of 1,581 deaths in British Columbia.

There are currently 3,766 confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in the province. Additional whole genome sequencing has not been completed since the last report.

Of the total cases, 266 are active, and the remaining people have recovered. This includes 2,837 cases of the B.1.1.7 (UK) variant, 51 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant and 878 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.

To date, 1,786,722 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in BC, 90,642 of which are second doses. A total of 119,785 people who tested positive for the virus have now recovered.

Today’s press conference can be streamed live on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.