Interior Health has seen the fewest new COVID-19 cases of any health authority today.

The province reported 395 new cases and 10 deaths from the virus today.

By health authority, there were 207 cases in Fraser Health, 86 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 41 in Northern Health, 37 in Island Health and 24 in Interior Health.

There are now 4,489 active cases and 228 people in hospital, with 62 people in intensive care.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says there are now 116 cases with a variant of concern, including 95 cases with the U.K. variant and 21 with the South African variant. Most of those variants are in the Lower Mainland; seventy-one of those are in Fraser Health while 39 are in Vancouver Coastal Health. Only two variant cases have been found in the Interior, both of which are the U.K. variant.

Henry says in about one-quarter of the variant cases found, health officials aren’t sure about the origin.

Meanwhile, she has clarified that the Nigerian variant remains a variant under investigation, and is not a variant of concern as was stated earlier this month. There have been two of those variant cases found in B.C. and at least one is in Interior Health.

Henry also says the reproductive rate of the virus has continued to climb this month in Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. She says that rate, plus the seven-day rolling average, are significant factors in easing or maintaining restrictions that are currently in place.