FILE PHOTO - B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix looks on as provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry provides an update on COVID-19 on July 6, 2020.
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January 20, 2021 - 4:09 PM
B.C. Health officials are reporting 500 new cases of COVID-19 today, Jan. 20, with 91 of those being in the Interior Health region.
That means since the start of the pandemic, there have been 62,412 cases in British Columbia, 4,345 of which are active.
"Our COVID-19 curve is trending in the right direction, and we want to keep that going - to push our curve down, which in turn, will allow us to safely ease restrictions,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix said in a joint statement.
"We thank everyone for continuing to do their part to stop the spread in our communities and helping all of us to get to the finish line faster. With each day that we follow the public health measures, our communities and our loved ones are safer. Let's keep going."
There are also 320 people hospitalized with the disease in B.C., with 66 in ICU.
While the caseload continues to rise, so too does the death toll. There were 14 new COVID-19 related deaths, and three were within Interior Health. Two were at Noric House in Vernon, and one was a death in the community or a hospital.
There are 125 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 216 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 32 in the Island Health region, 91 in the Interior Health region, 35 in the Northern Health region and one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada.
To date, 98,125 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in B.C.
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