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Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix denied that the province is withholding COVID-19 data from the public even as public health officials promised to start releasing neighbourhood-specific information on infections and vaccinations starting this week.
During question period Monday, B.C. Liberal leader Shirley Bond said that only publishing a fraction of data collected by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is “disrespectful and harmful” to communities hit hardest by the virus such as Whalley and Newton in northeastern Surrey. B.C. Green party leader Sonia Furstenau said the government is jeopardizing public trust by not providing them unfiltered COVID data.
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Image Credit: Province of British Columbia April 13, 2021 - 4:45 PM Another 873 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in B.C. and two more people have died, while the number of patients hospitalized reached an all-time high, health officials said today. With these new cases, there have been 113,702 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and 9,756 of the cases are active. Additionally, 377 people are now hospitalized with COVID-19, with 116 of whom in intensive care, Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a joint statement issued today, April 13. Yesterday, Minister Dix said hospitals had the capacity for this surge in cases.
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