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29 COVID19 cases for Tuesday

Darpan News Desk BC Government, 29 Jun, 2021 03:42 PM

There are 29 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 147,578 cases in British Columbia.

In total, 4,941,795 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 1,368,464 of which are second doses.

78.3% of all adults in B.C. and 77.0% of those 12 and older have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, 31.6% of all adults in B.C. and 29.5% of those 12 and older have received their second dose.

There have been ZERO new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,754 deaths in British Columbia.

Cases by health authority Coastal - 7, Fraser , 7 Island, 3 Interior, 10 Outside Canada 2 , Northern - ZERO

There are currently 876 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Of the active cases, 110 individuals are currently hospitalized, 34 of whom are in intensive care. This is the lowest level of active cases since August 22.

B.C. drops mandatory indoor mask mandate starting July 1 and is easing into Stage 3 of its restart plan.

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