BC Health Officials are scheduled to provide a live COVID-19 update on Thursday afternoon, including new epidemiological modelling.
The update comes amidst a spike in COVID-19 cases, with 1,168 announced on Wednesday. There have been six new deaths, for a total of 1,521 in British Columbia.
There are 8,728 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 14,602 people under public health monitoring due to identified exposure to known cases.
Of the active cases, 397 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 120 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.
To date, 1,190,832 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in BC, 87,820 of which are second doses.
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WHL suspends team activities for Rockets following positive COVID-19 tests
The Western Hockey League is dealing with their first major COVID-19 related challenge of the 2020-21 season.
In a statement that came out early Wednesday evening, the WHL announced that all activities involving the Kelowna Rockets had been suspended for a minimum of two weeks through Wednesday, April 14 following six additional positive COVID-19 tests.
According to the league, the positive test results belong to two hockey staff members and four players.
“The six positive test results received today follow one positive test result for COVID-19, which was received on Tuesday, March 30. All other test results from the other participating team cohorts in the RE/MAX Hub Centres (in Kelowna and Kamloops) came back negative,” the league said in a prepared statement.