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B.C. reports 624 new COVID-19 cases and 11 new deaths

B.C. health officials release a written statement with the daily COVID-19 numbers for Friday, Dec. 18. Legislative Bureau Chief Keith Baldrey has analysis and explains why officials are concerned about the Northern Health region – Dec 18, 2020

British Columbia reported 624 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, along with 11 deaths.

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In a written statement, health officials said it brought the province’s death toll to 724.

There were 356 people in hospital, 92 of whom were in critical or intensive care

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The province administered 1,376 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 to front-line health-care workers, for a total of 2,592 doses to date.

The majority of the new cases were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region (106) and Fraser Health region (406).

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Five  were in the Island Health region, 60 were in the Interior Health region and 47 were in the Northern Health region.

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The number of active cases dipped to 9,978, while another 10,211 people were in isolation due to possible exposure.​

About 74 per cent of B.C.’s total 45,400 total cases have recovered.

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