B.C. health officials are reporting 317 new COVID-19 cases today along with two more deaths.

There were 60 cases in Interior Health, along with 163 in Fraser Health, 73 in Vancouver Coastal Health, 16 in Northern Health, and five in Island Health.

Active cases are at 3,441 with 292 people in hospital, 79 in ICU. All three of those figures down slightly from yesterday’s update.

On the vaccine front, there have now been 3.1 million doses administered, including 160,885 second doses. In all, 67.2 per cent of adults and 62.7 per cent of people aged 12 and older have now received their first dose.

“This has been a milestone week in B.C.’s COVID-19 pandemic response. Our restart plan began, our surgical renewal strategy resumed and we have started the accelerated delivery of second doses to people throughout the province,” a statement from Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, and Health Minister Adrian Dix said.

“We have a roadmap and now we must stick to the path: doing what we can to further slow the spread of COVID-19 and break the chains of transmission in our communities.”

There are now 138,360 people who are considered to have recovered from COVID-19, about 96 per cent of the total 143,581 cases in British Columbia.