British Columbia reported 427 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and three additional deaths.
It brought B.C.’s seven-day rolling average for new cases to 408, down from 439 this time last week.
In a written statement, health officials said there were 4,150 active COVID-19 cases in the province. An additional 7,238 people were isolating due to possible exposure.
Ninety of the new cases were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 236 were in the Fraser Health Region, 18 were on Vancouver Island, 47 were in the Interior Health region and 31 were in the Northern Health region.
There were 232 people in hospital with the disease, 63 of whom were in critical or intensive care.
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A new outbreak was declared at Mission Memorial Hospital in the PATH and Medicine Units, after three patients tested positive.
Fraser Health said while those units are not taking new patients, the rest of the hospital, including the emergency department, remained open.
The province has administered 176,015 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, of which 26,030 were second doses.
About 92 per cent of B.C.’s 74,710 total cases have recovered, while 1,317 people have died.
Officials are also encouraging people to fill out a new survey from UBC, Simon Fraser University and the BC Children’s Hospital looking at the mental toll the pandemic is taking on British Columbians.
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