Infections continue to taper across the province

Forty-seven new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed between Monday and Tuesday in the Interior Health region.

They were among 435 people across B.C. who tested positive for the disease, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix said.

A total of 155,585 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, just under 13,000 of which are the required second shot.

For several weeks now, new daily infections across B.C. have remained well under the peak of 800-plus that were being recorded in early December.

“We are making progress in our efforts to push back on the COVID-19 virus and get to the days of fewer restrictions in our province,” Henry and Dix said.

“We can keep this positive, forward momentum going and keep our province safe through the small efforts we make every day,” they wrote in a joint news release.

About 71,400 people in B.C. have been infected by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, with 65,618 recoveries.

There are just under 4,400 active cases with 241 people in hospital. The rest are recovering at home.