by Craig Takeuchi on April 21st, 2021 at 5:30 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
There have been some glimmers of hope.
Active cases and monitored people have decreased in numbers for several consecutive days now. Also, B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry had stated during her presentation on April 19 that there are signs that B.C.’s curve has slowly begun to bend.
The primary area of concern, however, remains hospitalized cases, which continues to rise and is approaching 500 cases.
The number of deaths was also high today.
There are also 11 flights with exposures and three businesses temporarily closed by health authorities due to COVID-19.
by Craig Takeuchi on April 20th, 2021 at 6:40 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Active cases and the number of monitored people have been decreasing in recent days.
Unfortunately, the number of hospitalized continue to rise.
The more cases there are in hospitals, the greater the chance that those seeking medical treatment for reasons other than COVID-19 will also be impacted as the healthcare system including medical services and staff, becomes increasingly stretched thin.
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, Health Minister Adrian Dix, and Premier John Horgan all presented information at yesterday’s briefing about concerns about the high level of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
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Sandra MacKinnon felt absolutely horrible when she found out she likely brought the novel coronavirus into her Nanaimo, B.C., retirement home last month.
The 78-year-old former nurse had invited three friends and fellow residents of the Longlake Chateau into her room to play Scrabble on a recent Wednesday morning. The group – all vaccinated a couple weeks earlier – had a blast, letting their guards down to play the board game for two hours.
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In total, 318 British Columbians are in hospital with ailments related to the virus that has spawned a global pandemic. That is the highest number since January 25. The rise in serious cases of COVID-19 illness comes as the province recorded 23 more virus-related deaths in the past four days. That raises the death toll from COVID-19 in B.C. to 1,486. New daily COVID-19 case counts continue to be elevated. Health officials detected 890 new cases in the past 24 hours, and 999 cases in the day before that. B.C. set a record by identifying 1,072 new cases on April 1. In total, 104,061 infections have been identified since the first case was discovered in January, 2020. Of those, more than 91.1%, or 94,806 people have recovered.