B.C. public health teams have reached more than 80 per cent of eligible adults with at least one COVID-19 vaccines as of Tuesday, as they recorded the fifth straight day with no deaths attributed to the pandemic.
The province has also gone five days with all senior care homes free of COVID-19 outbreaks, as the health ministry prepares to ease restrictions of visitors to residents next week. Infection protocols continue in areas of three B.C. hospitals, Royal Inland in Kamloops, Eagle Ridge in Port Moody and Laurel Place at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
B.C. recorded 33 new COVID-19 cases for July 13, with known active cases at 639, down from 658 on Monday. There are 66 people in hospital with coronavirus-related illness, 14 in intensive care, the same as Monday, the health ministry said in its latest daily COVID-19 status report.
By region, the new and active cases for July 13 are:
• 10 new cases in Fraser Health, 172 active
• five new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 254 active
• 13 new cases in Interior Health, 155 active
• one new case in Northern Health, 27 active
• three new cases in Island Health, 23 active
• one new case of a person who resides outside of Canada, eight active
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