BRITISH COLUMBIA

Canada’s third-largest province has seen the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases throughout the pandemic, with 190,372, behind Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.

As with other provinces, it instituted many lockdown measures during the first wave of the pandemic, only to ease them through summer 2020, and bring them back into place when, on Oct. 19, 2020, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the chief public health officer, said the second wave was hitting.

Various region-specific public health measures were introduced, and November saw the province get its mandatory mask mandate.

It was in April 2021, when the third wave hit, that B.C. was adding the most cases, around 1,300 per day at the peak of the wave.

Like other provinces, British Columbia loosened its restrictions in the summer of 2021, but brought back some of them, including a mask mandate, once cases began to climb again. The province also has a vaccine passport.

Over the course of the pandemic, 1,983 British Columbians have died from COVID-19, a death rate of 39 per 100,000 people — higher than the Atlantic provinces and the North, but considerably lower than the other large provinces.

TOTAL DEATHS 1,983

Total cases:190,372 Total deaths: 1,983

Death rate: 38 per 100,000

Peak daily deaths: 28, Dec. 10, 2020 Current hospitalizations: 345 Cumulative hospitalizations: 10,087 Peak hospitalizations: 515, April 28, 2021 Current ICU occupancy: 144 Peak daily ICU occupancy: 183, May 2, 2021 Cumulative ICU occupancy: 2,943 Current active cases: 5,937 Peak active cases: 10,075, April 16, 2021

Peak new daily cases: 1,314, April 7, 2021