The new figures represent an increase of five COVID-19 patients admitted in the last 24 hours, including two fewer ICU patients. This is the second time this week that hospitalizations have increased since they have been steadily declining since February 7. Total imports, which usually lag behind new cases, are down 10.3% from last Friday, when 290 people were treated for the disease, and down 56.6% from the previous month, when 599 were treated. people. The number of patients in the intensive care unit increased by 8.7 percent from 46 a week ago and decreased by almost 48 percent from a month ago, when 96 people were admitted to the ICU. The provincial death toll from COVID-19 is now 2,983 lives lost from the 355,092 confirmed cases to date. There are three new cases in assisted living, long-term and acute care facilities, bringing the total to seven, including one outpatient at Surrey Memorial Hospital. As of Friday, 90.8 percent of five-year-olds and older in BC had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 87.2 percent a second dose. From March 17 to March 23, those who were not fully vaccinated accounted for 15.8 percent of cases and from March 10 to March 23, 26.2 percent of hospitalizations, according to the province. A total of 2,553,879 million people have received a booster dose to date.
The Federal Reserve provides an additional $ 2 billion to clear delays in surgery
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced on Friday that the federal government would send another $ 2 billion to provinces and territories to help clear delays in the healthcare sector created by the years-long pandemic crisis. Over the past two years, provinces and territories have canceled hundreds of thousands of “optional” surgeries – leaving many Canadians waiting for hip replacements, cataract surgery or cancer treatments, among dozens of other surgeries. The surgeries were canceled as hospitals struggled to raise funds to cope with the overwhelming burden of COVID cases.
