Victoria, B.C (WNews Vancouver) – B.C. has reported 6,288 new COVID cases over a 3-day period including a daily record of 2,552 new cases from Friday to Saturday. The province will return to regular reporting of COVID-19 cases, vaccinations, hospitalizations and deaths, and cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status on Wednesday, Dec. 29.
This update comes as Canada crosses its 2 million cases earlier today, since the start of the Pandemic. Many parts of the country have seen a record amount of COVID19 cases as the Omicron variant takes hold as the main variant that is spreading.
Testing capacity in the province has been reached and people are being asked not to test. These numbers only show a partial picture of cases in the province.
Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 6,288 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 241,946 cases in the province:
- Dec. 24-25: 2,552 new cases
- Dec. 25-26: 2,023 new cases
- Dec. 26-27: 1,713 new cases
The new cases include:
- 3,181 new cases in Fraser Health
- 1,482 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health
- 713 new cases in Interior Health
- 174 new cases in Northern Health
- 737 new cases in Island Health
- one new case in a person who resides outside of Canada
Note: case counts provided on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, are preliminary.
Featured Photo By: Province of B.C | December 21, 2021 vis Flickr