Since yesterday, there have been 840 more diagnosed COVID-19 cases in B.C. and 11,164 cases are being actively monitored. (If you’re looking for a benchmark, here’s the news from one year ago today.)

Case Counts:

• Total cases in B.C. since the pandemic began: 98,165. Of the new cases, the breakdown is as follows:
  • Vancouver Coastal Health: 265 new cases
  • Fraser Health: 421 new cases
  • Island Health: 39 new cases
  • Interior Health: 67 new cases
  • Northern Health: 46 new cases
• Active cases: 7,062
• Hospitalized cases: 312 (previously 299)
• Intensive care: 8 (previously 79)
• No new deaths (total 1,455)
• Recovered: 90,401 (previously 87,866)

There have been 320 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 2,553 cases. Of the total cases, 313 are active and the remaining people have recovered. This includes 2,134 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant, 49 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant and 370 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.

To date, 724,193 (was 699,092) doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,319 of which are second doses. Vaccine appointment bookings for age-based immunizations are now open for people 73 or older in all health authorities, and Indigenous peoples over 18.

Island Health Vaccination information

Only call in at 1-833-348-4787, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. daily, when you’re eligible. If you miss your initial age-based window, you can call anytime after you become eligible. Eligibility is now for anyone 85 and older, or Indigenous 65 and older.

From today’s statement

“We have seen the start of exponential growth of COVID-19 cases. To stop this upward trend from continuing, we are taking the necessary steps to protect our communities and get back on the path we want and need to be on.

“We are asking people for your help – particularly over the next three weeks – to push our curve back down again. This means staying small, staying outside and staying with our same group of close contacts.

“This also means not travelling for leisure or vacation outside of our local communities or regions because the risk for all of us is too great right now.

“We understand that the upcoming important religious holidays are often a time when we would normally get together with others to celebrate. This year, we need to ensure we are celebrating safely, which means not travelling to other communities and postponing those family dinners until it is safe to be together indoors again. As this pandemic continues, we join faith congregations around the globe in celebrating these important holidays in a different way this year so we will all still be here when we can finally safely come together again.

“Today, on National Doctors’ Day, you can recognize the many doctors who have been on the front lines of our COVID-19 response by doing your part. You can do this by using all of your layers of protection and following the public health orders we have in place.

“Together, we can use this circuit breaker to slow the virus, protect more people with vaccines and allow us to continue to safely move forward.”

Other resources

• Island Health data
• School exposures
• See the latest Health Orders here

Access the BC COVID-19 dashboard for the latest case counts and information on recoveries, deaths, hospitalizations, testing and more:

• BC COVID-19 Dashboard (mobile and most browsers)
• BC COVID-19 Dashboard for Internet Explorer users

Cases by Health Service Delivery Area

Click here (Updated weekly on Thursdays)

Previous provincial updates

• 1,205 new BC COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths, April 15, 2021 (includes modelling)
• 1,168 new BC COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths, April 14, 2021
• 873 new BC COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths, April 13, 2021
• 3,289 new BC COVID-19 cases, 18 deaths, April 12, 2021 (3 days)
• 1,262 new BC COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths, April 9, 2021
• 1,293 new BC COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths, April 8, 2021
• 997 new BC COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths, April 7, 2021
• 1,068 new BC COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths, April 6, 2021
• 1,889 new BC COVID-19 cases in the last two days, 23 death in the last four, as of April 5, 2021
• Two record days mean 2,090 new BC COVID-19 cases in BC, April 3, 2021
• 832 new BC COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths in BC, April 1, 2021
• With 1,013 new BC COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths in BC, March 31, 2021, BC surpasses 100,000 cases
• 840 new BC COVID-19 cases and no deaths in BC, March 30, 2021
• 2,518 new BC COVID-19 cases and 6 deaths in BC, March 29, 2021
• 908 new BC COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths in BC, March 26, 2021
• Yowza! 800 new BC COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths in BC, March 25, 2021
• 716 new BC COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths in BC, March 24, 2021
• 682 new BC COVID-19 cases and 1 death in BC, March 23, 2021
• 737 new BC COVID-19 cases and 16 deaths in BC, March 22, 2021 (3 days)
• Gah! 737 new BC COVID-19 cases and 2 deaths in BC, March 19, 2021
• 622 new BC COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths in BC, March 18, 2021
• Covid-19 vaccination update, March 18, 2021
• 498 new BC COVID-19 cases and 4 deaths in BC, March 17, 2021
• 556 new BC COVID-19 cases and 0 deaths in BC, March 16, 2021
• B.C’s first deployment of AstraZeneca vaccine in B.C.
• 1,506 new BC COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths in BC, March 15, 2021
• 648 new BC COVID-19 cases and 0 deaths in BC, March 12, 2021
• 569 new BC COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths in BC, March 11, 2021
• 531 new BC COVID-19 cases and 1 death in BC, March 10, 2021
• 550 new BC COVID-19 cases and 2 deaths in BC, March 9, 2021