B C reports second-highest daily total of new COVID-19 cases in 2021 kamsacktimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kamsacktimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
B.C. officials said earlier this week that they expect all eligible British Columbians to have been vaccinated by the end of July. In order to do that, the province will need to increase more than tenfold the number of people that health officials vaccinate each day, to around 26,666. Health officials administered 6,627 doses of vaccine in the past day, to 6,543 new people, and a mere 84 second doses to individuals who have already had their first doses. Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry and others have explained that the new strategy is to focus first on vaccinating people with single doses, and to leave second doses until as long as 112 days after the first dose because of supply shortages. The rationale for this tactic is also that first doses provide significant immunity and it is smarter to vaccinate as many people as possible with first doses, to limit the spread of COVID-19, than to focus on having people fully immunized with two doses.
Two more British Columbians lost their lives while suffering from COVID-19, pushing the province s death toll from the virus to 1,365, provincial health officer Bonnie Henry said March 2. That . . .
Of the 4,464 known active cases, 236 people are in hospital, with 65 of those sick enough to be in intensive care units. Eight more people have died from the virus, raising the province s death toll from the virus to 1,363. Almost 92.7%, or 74,776 people, of those infected are said to be recovered because they have tested negative for the virus twice. Health officials are closely monitoring another 8,210 people because they have had known exposure to identified cases. Health officials provided 23,308 new doses of the vaccine over the weekend, with 13,339 of those doses being the recipient s first dose and 9,969 being the recipient s second dose. In total, 191,904 British Columbians have had one dose, while another 83,777 have had two doses.
Number of British Columbians monitored for COVID-19 rises to seven-week high princegeorgecitizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from princegeorgecitizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.