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. . .
Nine more people have lost their lives to COVID-19, bringing the death toll from the virus to 1,128, according to new data from the B.C. government. This is the lowest reported daily total of new. . .
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. dropped for the fifth consecutive reporting period to the lowest total since November 27, nearly eight weeks ago. There are now 309 people . . .
Image Credit: Submitted/Interior Health January 20, 2021 - 2:30 PM All residents and staff at long-term care homes in the Interior Health region will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next week. That may cut down on the number of outbreaks in those facilities but the virus is spreading like a wildfire from the Central Okanagan to the north and northwest, Dr. Albert de Villiers, the Interior Health region’s chief medical health officer, said today, Jan. 19, during a news conference. “Maybe you can compare it to a wildfire where lots of the bush has already burned in the Central Okanagan, unfortunately, but in some of the other areas we haven’t seen a lot of fire yet so there’s a lot of kindling still out there. There are still a lot of people who haven’t been exposed, Dr. de Villiers said.
The number of British Columbians with severe cases of COVID-19 has been falling, with only 329 people now in hospital – the lowest total since December 3. Other metrics similarly show that the . . .