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 . . .
B.C.’s death toll from COVID-19 rose to 1,154 on January 25, after 26 residents died from the virus during the weekend, according to government data. The number of serious cases has also risen, . . .
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. . .
Details on the death were not immediately available. Active cases in Northern Health stood at 512 on Monday, down 22 from the start of the weekend. There were 47 COVID patients in hospital, down by one, with 16 of them in intensive care, down two. For B.C. as a whole, active cases totalled 4,392 on Monday, down by 87 from Friday. In a joint statement, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix raised concern over the number of new cases. In the last couple of weeks, we have plateaued at about 500 new cases of COVID-19 a day. And, while the number of long-term care outbreaks has slowed, we continue to see new outbreaks in hospitals and in the community.