As B.C. prepares to embark upon its third stage of reopening tomorrow (July 1), case counts continue to either remain level or decrease.

Meanwhile, the immunization program passed a major milestone, with over five million doses administered.

After regional health authorities had to take temporary measures for immunization and testing clinics due to the B.C. heat wave, there have been a few more announcements.

Island Health, which reported seeing patient volumes increase during the heat wave, is temporarily relocating the Comox immunization clinic at Glacier Gardens to the air-conditioned Florence Filberg Centre (411 Anderton Avenue) in Courtenay from July 1 to 5.

Fraser Health announced today that all immunization and testing clinics in its region have resumed regular operations, after a number of clinics temporarily relocated due to high temperatures during the heat wave.

Meanwhile, Vancouver Coastal Health announced that effective today, all of its clinics will accept drop-ins for first dose vaccinations. 

B.C. update: June 30

B.C. is reporting 44 new COVID-19 cases today, which includes:

• 17 in Fraser Health;
• 14 in Interior Health;
• 12 in Vancouver Coastal Health;
• one in Island Health
• no new cases in the Northern Health region;
• no one from outside of Canada.

This is the third consecutive day (and fifth day within the past two weeks) that Northern Health has reported zero new cases.

Currently, there are 816 active cases—a drop of 60 cases since yesterday.

Hospitalized cases decreased by two people to 108 individuals in hospitals, with 34 of those patients in intensive care (same number as yesterday).

For a second consecutive day, there have been no new COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities at 1,754 people who have died during the pandemic.

With 110 recoveries since yesterday, a cumulative total of 145,032 people have now recovered.

B.C. has recorded a cumulative total of 147,621 cases during the pandemic.

In the provincial immunization program, almost 80 percent of British Columbian adults have received their first vaccine dose—78.4 percent of all adults and 77.1 percent of those 12 and above have received their first doses.

In addition, 32.8 percent of all adults in B.C. and 30.6 percent of those 12 and older have received their second dose.

A total of 5,002,916 doses of Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines have been administered in B.C., and that includes 1,421,506 second doses.

Outbreaks and exposures

Today, Interior Health declared a healthcare outbreak in a surgical unit (Unit 6 South) at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, in which seven patients tested positive.

Meanwhile, there are seven other active healthcare outbreaks in the province—five in longterm care facilities and two in acute care facilities.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control listed one new flight on its public exposures list:

• June 21: Air Canada Flight 103, Toronto to Vancouver.