The province lists 7,405 people as actively battling infections, and 1,458 people as having died, which leaves 119 people unaccounted for, with provincial officials having told Glacier Media that a likely reason being that the individuals left the province and did not update authorities. The 7,405 people actively infected is the highest total provided so far in 2021. B.C. announced that there were 7,803 people actively infected on December 31, and then did not provide another update until January 4, when it said 6,823 people were known to be infected. Another three people died from the virus overnight, while 301 are fighting the virus in hospitals, with 80 of those being in intensive care units.
April 01, 2021 - 11:40 AM Two additional COVID-19 cases have been found in connection with the outbreak at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital. The discovery of the two new cases follows three cases identified yesterday, March 31, that occurred on the Level 3 Surgical Unit. The cases led Interior Health to declare an outbreak yesterday.
READ MORE: Interior Health is now expanding its request that anyone that was on the Level 3 Surgical Unit at the hospital from March 15 to March 29 should self-isolate for 14 days since they were discharged from the hospital. Interior Health said in a media release that patients that shared a room with an individual that tested positive, and those at a high risk of exposure will be contacted by the health authority.
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Image Credit: Submitted/Interior Health April 01, 2021 - 2:57 PM To date, there have been 70 cases of COVID variants of concern in the Interior Health region but, eventually, all cases are likely to be variants, according to Interior Health’s chief medical health officer Dr. Albert de Villiers. “From what we’ve heard from the United Kingdom and other countries is, eventually the variants will take over,” he said during a news briefing today, April 1. “It will be more than the regular COVID.” He noted the original COVID-19 was the Wuhan variant in China but that’s not what’s been predominant in Canada.
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