The number of British Columbians suffering COVID-19 infections severe enough to be in hospital dropped for the third consecutive day, to 291 – the lowest total since November 24, more than nine . . .
B.C. recorded four new COVID-19 deaths on January 27 – the lowest total of new deaths in a day since November 21, when there were also four deaths. The last time there were fewer than four deaths . . .
VANCOUVER It s been one year since the first COVID-19 case was publicly announced in B.C. and since then, the province has seen more than 1,000 people die from the disease, restrictions come and go and the promise of vaccine ahead. Jan. 28, 2020, marked the first time a case of the novel coronavirus was formally announced in B.C. after a man who travelled to the province from Wuhan, China, tested positive. Since then, more than 65,000 people have also tested positive in the province. In the last 12 months, British Columbians have experienced varying degrees of public health orders, from closures of many businesses in March to an economic restart in the spring and summer, then back to severe social restrictions as the province entered its second wave in the fall.
Despite B.C. recently detecting new, increasingly infectious strains of COVID-19, the province’s number of newly identified cases has been trending lower in recent days. Unfortunately, there were. . .