B.C. health officials are reporting 395 new COVID-19 cases today, 187 of which were in Interior Health.

Active cases of the virus are now at 3,284, with 1,893 of those cases in Interior Health – both numbers are up from yesterday’s update. There are now 71 people in hospital in B.C. with the virus with 23 people in intensive care.

There were 100 new cases in Fraser Health today (619 active), with another 61 in Vancouver Coastal Health (430 active), 31 cases in Island Health (218 active), and 15 new cases in Northern Health (111 active).

There was also one new cases in a person who lives outside of Canada taking the total number of those active cases to 13.

With this increase in daily cases, the seven day rolling average has nearly doubled in one week from 196 on Aug. 3 to 383 today.

Data from last Wednesday, Aug. 4, shows most of the cases in Interior Health in the Central Okanagan where there are additional restrictions and health guidelines in place to slow transmission of the virus. New data is expected tomorrow, Aug. 11, covering the week of Aug. 1 to 7.

There were no new COVID deaths reported today, leaving the death toll at 1,777 people.

On the vaccine front, there are 82.1 per cent of eligible people 12 and older who have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 70.6 per cent are fully vaccinated. In all, there have been 7,087,736 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines administered in British Columbia since December 2020.

Yesterday, Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced plans to cut down the timeline between first and second vaccine doses to 28 days from the current 49, as COVID-19 cases rise in the province.