B.C. is reporting what is now its fourth-highest one-day count for COVID-19 cases, as active cases and hospitalizations hit new record highs.

There are 1,205 new cases today in the province and three deaths from COVID-19. There were 69 cases in Interior Health, as well as 720 in Fraser Health, 301 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 66 in Northern Health and 38 in Island Health.

Active cases have now reached 10,052, which is a new record. The previous high was 10,039 on Dec. 14, and active cases also were above 10,000 on Dec. 17, at 10,009.

Hospitalizations have also reached 400 for the first time in B.C., with now 409 people in hospital with COVID-19. There are 125 people in intensive care units.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says, while people between 19 and 39 years old are most often being infected with COVID-19, people aged 50 and older and making up the largest amount of people in hospital with the virus, and people 60 and older make up the majority of ICU patients.

Henry says workplaces and social gatherings continue to be primary drivers for the virus spreading.

She says more contagious variant of concern cases now make up close to 60 per cent of all new cases in B.C. Last week, the province changed its approach for genome sequencing for variants of concern; instead of testing most new cases for variants, it will assume new cases are variants, and only test select cases.

Meanwhile, for vaccines, there have now been 1,235,863 doses administered in the province, which is just over 45,000 more than yesterday.

More to come.