B.C. COVID-19 update: 992 new cases, 23 deaths over last 48 hours
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B.C. has added 992 new cases of COVID-19 and 23 more deaths over the last two days, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
B.C. has added 992 new cases of COVID-19 and 23 more deaths over the last two days, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
The total includes 519 cases recorded from Wednesday to Thursday and another 473 recorded from Thursday to Friday. The province did not issue a pandemic update on Remembrance Day.
The latest numbers bring B.C.'s rolling seven-day average for new cases back below 500, to 498 cases per day. The rolling seven-day average for daily deaths is up to eight.
According to the BCCDC's COVID-19 Dashboard, there are currently 4,265 active cases of the coronavirus in the province.
Of those, 384 people are currently hospitalized with the disease, and 124 of them are in intensive care units.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 211,750 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in B.C. and 2,257 confirmed deaths, according to the BCCDC.
The 23 deaths over the last 48 hours happened across B.C.'s five health authorities, but the largest share of them was recorded in Vancouver Coastal Health, where 11 people died.
