COVID daily case counts remain high with 114 in Interior Health; 555 in B.C.

The number of new COVID cases in B.C. is not going down despite a slowing increasing vaccination rate.

In the last 24 hours, there were 555 new cases reported in B.C. with 114 in the Interior Health region, according to a Ministry of Health news release issued today, Nov. 10.

There were 197 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 106 in Northern Health, 88 on Vancouver Island and 50 in Vancouver Coastal.

The vaccination rate for people over the age of 12 with at least one dose is 90.5% while 86.4% have two doses.

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There have been 11 more deaths in the last 24 hours in B.C., including one in the Interior Health region.

There are 4,321 active cases with 404 people in hospital, 117 of whom are in intensive care.

From Oct. 26 to Nov. 8, 65% of those hospitalized were unvaccinated, 5.8% had one dose and 29.3% were fully vaccinated.

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