COVID-19 in B.C.: New provisional record of 1,474 cases over the past 24 hours

by Charlie Smith on December 22nd, 2021 at 4:08 PM

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Today (December 22), the Ministry of Health did not reveal the degree to which the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has spread across B.C.

Those numbers will come on Thursday (December 23).

But it's clear that the spread of COVID-19 is continuing briskly across the province.

B.C. has reported 1,474 cases over the last 24 hours. But the government emphasizes that these are "provisional due to a delayed data refresh and will be verified once confirmed".

If that number holds up, it will set a record for COVID-19 infections in B.C. over a 24-hour period, eclipsing the previous record of 1,308 recorded yesterday.

The six new deaths reported over the last 24 hours bring the total number of COVID-19 fatalities in B.C to 2,409 since March 2020.

The new/active cases include: