British Columbia is reporting 424 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the active case count in the province to 3,061.
Of the active cases, it says 295 people are in hospital with 112 in intensive care.
Over the past two weeks, the province says 301 people were hospitalized due to the virus, and about 62 per cent of them were unvaccinated, six per cent were partially vaccinated and about 32 per cent fully vaccinated.
Health officials say there have been three new deaths, which brings the overall death toll in B.C. to 2,316.
They say vaccine numbers are slowly rising, with 91 per cent of eligible people over the age of 12 having received their first dose of a vaccine and 87.5 per cent of eligible people having received a second shot.
There have been two new health-care facility outbreaks declared for a total of 10 facilities with ongoing outbreaks.
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