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411 COVID19 cases for Tuesday

Darpan News Desk Darpan, 18 May, 2021 03:31 PM

There are 411 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C., including five epi-linked cases, for a total of 140,075 cases in British Columbia. Lowest daily number since early March. Seven day rolling average is 493.

There are 360 individuals currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 127 of whom are in intensive care.

Great news in Coastal. 37 new cases in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 285 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 12 in the Island Health region, 69 in the Interior Health region and eight in the Northern Health region.

There are 4,890 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. A further 133,383 people who tested positive have recovered.

There have been two new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,650 deaths in British Columbia.

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