VANCOUVER The provincial government has released a tentative timeline for when non-urgent scheduled surgeries will resume in British Columbia. These surgeries will resume over a three-week period, which began this week and continues through the week of June 7. The timelines break down what will happen in Lower Mainland hospitals in both the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser health regions. Health Minister Adrian Dix said some of these operating rooms were repurposed at the height of the third wave, used to increase the number of intensive care beds available. In other cases, staff involved in non-urgent scheduled surgeries were moved to other departments to help with the fight against COVID-19. But things will now be getting back to normal at the nine hospitals.
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May 3, 2021
B.C.’s COVID-19 updates for May 3
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, today (May 3) issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia.
Dr. Bonnie Henry
Today, we are reporting on three periods: from April 30 to May 1, we had 835 new cases; from May 1 to May 2, we had 671 new cases and in the last 24 hours, we had a further 668 new cases.
This results in 2,174 new cases over the period, for a total of 131,656 cases in British Columbia.
There are 7,327 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 11,781 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases. A further 122,518 people who tested positive have recovered.
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following joint statement regarding updates on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia: "Today, we are reporting on three periods: from April 30 to May 1, we had 835 new cases; from May 1 to May 2, we had 671 new cases and in the last 24 hours, we had a further 668 new