COVID-19 cases continued to mount in British Columbia Thursday, as health officials announced 801 new cases and six additional deaths.
It lifted the seven-day average for new cases to 708, the highest it has been since early May.
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Of the new cases, 267 were in the Fraser Health region, 128 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 237 were in the Interior Health region, 103 were in the Northern Health region and 66 were in the Island Health region.
There were 5,931 active cases across the province.
The number of people hospitalized, 199, was unchanged overnight, but the number of people in critical or intensive care climbed by four to 116.
More than 3.9 million British Columbians, representing 84.6 per cent of those eligible and 76.1 per cent of B.C.’s population, has had one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Of them, more than 3.56 million people, representing 76.9 per cent of those eligible and 69.2 per cent of B.C.’s population, has been fully immunized.
The provinces says new cases and hospitalizations continue to be mainly among the unvaccinated.
While more than two-thirds of British Columbians are fully immunized, they represented 79 per cent of cases in the last week and just 16 per cent of hospitalizations over the last two weeks.
Since the start of the pandemic, B.C. has reported 167,654 cases, while 1,824 people have died.
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