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March 9, 2021
B.C.’s COVID-19 updates for March 9
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, today (March 9) issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia.
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Today, we are reporting 550 new cases, including 11 epi-linked cases for a total of 85,119 cases in British Columbia.
There are 4,869 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 8,971 people under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases. A further 78,770 people who tested positive have recovered.
Of the active cases, 249 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 68 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.
B.C.'s Covid-19 update has another 550 new cases today, with a majority of the cases in the Lower Mainland. There are 133 new cases in the Vancouver C.
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Case numbers remain around similar levels as previous days, which are as both B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix have previously pointed out remain too high.
What’s more, the P1 variant, which was first detected in Brazil, has now arrived in B.C. (more details below) for a total of three variants of concern present in the province.
Yesterday (March 8), phone lines at health call centres opened to start taking requests for vaccination appointments. However, the huge volume of calls encountered problems getting through on lines, long wait times, and disconnected calls.
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British Columbia now has cases of three COVID-19 variants, after the troubling appearance of the P1 variant on Tuesday.
While variants identified in U.K., South African and Brazilian are all more contagious, the P1 variant from Brazil has been shown to reinfect people who had recovered from the original virus. All three can be managed with vaccines.
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The provincial health officer reported 182 new COVID-19 variant cases on Tuesday, including the P1 case making up a third of the 550 COVID-19 cases reported for the day.