COVID-19, the provincial government said Tuesday.Health officials also reported 522 new cases of the disease to bring B.C’s total number of cases to 43,463.The province’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 668.
About a third of those deaths have occurred in December.There are 361 people in hospital with COVID-19, an increase of two from Monday.
Of those, 93 patients are in intensive care, an increase of six.The number of active cases in the province dipped below 10,000 to 9,860.
Long-term care worker is the first person in B.C. to receive COVID-19 vaccine The numbers come as a health worker became the first person in B.C.