The new numbers represent an increase of five COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours. There is one less patient in the ICU. Overall hospitalizations, which usually lag behind peaks and reductions in new cases, are up 10% from last Thursday, when 255 people were treated for the disease, and down about 49% from the previous month, when 549 people were treated. . The number of patients in the intensive care unit decreased by about 19 percent from 52 a week ago and by 51 percent from a month ago, when 85 people were admitted to the ICU. As of Thursday, 7 percent of COVID-19 tests in BC are positive, according to the county COVID-19 control panel. The number was over 20 percent though most of January, but began to decline in February, along with hospitalization. Test positive reached its lowest point earlier this month at 5.6%, but has been slowly returning since March 21st. The provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said anything above a five percent test positive is an indicator of a more worrying level of transmission. The provincial death toll from COVID-19 is now 2,998 lives lost from the 356,501 confirmed cases to date. There are a total of nine active outbreaks in assisted living, long-term and acute care facilities, including one in Surrey Memorial Hospital. As of Thursday, 90.8 percent of those over five in BC had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3 percent had received a second dose. From March 23 to 29, those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.3 percent of cases and from March 16 to March 29, 21.9 percent of hospitalizations, according to the province. A total of 2.7 million people have received the booster vaccine to date.
Details for the 4th installment are coming
Health Secretary Adrian Dix says the county is preparing to provide information this Tuesday on the potential release of the fourth dose of COVID-19 to vulnerable people in British Columbia. The minister says discussions are under way on providing a second booster vaccine to clinically vulnerable people, such as those in long-term care. Dix told reporters that BC’s strategy for COVID-19 has always been to protect the most vulnerable and to act on data that is examined on a daily basis.
Restoring the mask’s mandate: Commissioner for Human Rights
BC Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender wrote a letter to the provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry demanding the return of orders for the masks. Govender said in an interview with CBC’s All Points West that lifting the mask order not only poses a risk to the health of immunocompromised individuals, but further isolates them from accessing places where masking is no longer mandatory. “There will be a day when we will no longer need to wear masks, but this day is not here yet,” Govender said. Guder has not yet received a response from the Ministry of Health.
title: “B.C. Reports 5 More People In Hospital With Covid 19 1 Less In An Icu And 2 More Deaths " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-24” author: “Conrad Geraci”
The new numbers represent an increase of five COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours. There is one less patient in the ICU. Overall hospitalizations, which usually lag behind peaks and reductions in new cases, are up 10% from last Thursday, when 255 people were treated for the disease, and down about 49% from the previous month, when 549 people were treated. . The number of patients in the intensive care unit decreased by about 19 percent from 52 a week ago and by 51 percent from a month ago, when 85 people were admitted to the ICU. As of Thursday, 7 percent of COVID-19 tests in BC are positive, according to the county COVID-19 control panel. The number was over 20 percent though most of January, but began to decline in February, along with hospitalization. Test positive reached its lowest point earlier this month at 5.6%, but has been slowly returning since March 21st. The provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said anything above a five percent test positive is an indicator of a more worrying level of transmission. The provincial death toll from COVID-19 is now 2,998 lives lost from the 356,501 confirmed cases to date. There are a total of nine active outbreaks in assisted living, long-term and acute care facilities, including one in Surrey Memorial Hospital. As of Thursday, 90.8 percent of those over five in BC had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.3 percent had received a second dose. From March 23 to 29, those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 17.3 percent of cases and from March 16 to March 29, 21.9 percent of hospitalizations, according to the province. A total of 2.7 million people have received the booster vaccine to date.
Details for the 4th installment are coming
Health Secretary Adrian Dix says the county is preparing to provide information this Tuesday on the potential release of the fourth dose of COVID-19 to vulnerable people in British Columbia. The minister says discussions are under way on providing a second booster vaccine to clinically vulnerable people, such as those in long-term care. Dix told reporters that BC’s strategy for COVID-19 has always been to protect the most vulnerable and to act on data that is examined on a daily basis.
Restoring the mask’s mandate: Commissioner for Human Rights
BC Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender wrote a letter to the provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry demanding the return of orders for the masks. Govender said in an interview with CBC’s All Points West that lifting the mask order not only poses a risk to the health of immunocompromised individuals, but further isolates them from accessing places where masking is no longer mandatory. “There will be a day when we will no longer need to wear masks, but this day is not here yet,” Govender said. Guder has not yet received a response from the Ministry of Health.
