COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations decrease, 14 deaths

Mar 14, 2022 | 4:30 PM Pete McIntyre

British Columbia is reporting 689 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, including 198 today.

Of the weekend total, 150 were in Interior Health, trailing the 213 in Fraser Health and the 166 infections in Vancouver Coastal Health. Elsewhere, Island Health had 102 new cases and Northern Health had 58.

A total of 14 more people died from the virus including two in the Interior, and 12 in the two Lower Mainland health regions. That increases the overall death toll to 2,935 in B.C.

People in hospital with COVID dropped slightly to 359 (decrease of nine from Friday) with 51 in intensive care (increase of five). There are 83 patients in Interior hospitals with COVID, 7 in intensive care.

There were no new outbreaks at health care facilities.

The outbreak at Mission Memorial Hospital (Fraser Health) has been declared over, for a total of 13 facilities with ongoing outbreaks, including four in Interior Health (Ponderosa, Hillside Village, Mission Creek Landing, Williams Lake Seniors Village).

As of today, 90.7 per cent of eligible people five and older in B.C. have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 86.8 per cent have had two shots, and 56.7 per cent of residents 12 and older have had the first two plus a booster.

From March 4-10, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.3 per cent of cases. From Feb. 25 to March 10, they accounted for 29.4 per cent of hospitalizations.