BC health officials report 1,889 new COVID-19 cases since Saturday

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Health officials are reporting an additional 1,889 new cases of COVID-19 over the past two days.

The agency on Monday reported 138 active cases in the county.

The Indiana Department of Health updated the school COVID-19 dashboard Monday where 387 new student cases were listed from October 26 to April 2, 54 new teacher cases from March 10 to April 1, and 58 new staff COVID-19 cases from March 16 to April 2. "Those figures were provisional and have since been confirmed as 1,074 cases over April 1 to 2 and 1,077 cases over April 2 to 3", said Provincial Health Officer Doctor Bonnie Henry. The number of people in intensive care grew by nearly 20 per cent over the same period to 96 as 916 variant cases appeared.

Since the beginning of the month, there have been 916 new cases of a COVID-19 variant of concern.


There are 8,490 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 11,989 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases.

23 people have died since April 1, the provincial death toll is now 1,486. This includes 2,771 cases of the B.1.1.7 (UK) variant, 51 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant, and 737 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.

Henry also reported that while 806,118 people in B.C. had received one of the three available vaccines, only 87,472 had been fully immunized with two shots, or less than two per cent of B.C.'s population.

As of Monday, a total of 3,015,788 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Indiana.

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