A near doubling of Tuesday COIVD figures, focus on basic measures to 'push our curve down again'

The yo yo effect was in full play today for the case reviews of Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.

The often repeated pattern of late back in motion, as the two top public health officials in the province delivered the Wednesday COVID update noting of a near double the totals reviewed on Tuesday.

“Today, we are announcing 104 new cases, including six epi-linked cases, for a total of 5,952 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 1,127 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, 2,786 people who are under active public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases, and 4,605 people who tested positive have recovered. 

Currently, 33 individuals are hospitalized with COVID-19, 14 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation. "

For the review of each Health Authority the totals to date are:

1,974 cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 3,112 in the Fraser Health region, 178 in the Island Health region, 445 in the Interior Health region, 164 in the Northern Health region that an increase of four from Tuesday. 

79 cases of COVID were reported from people who reside outside of Canada.

The day did deliver one positive note that of no new deaths to report over the last 24 hours.

Once again the focus for discussion has turned towards layers of protection and keeping circles relatively small to push down on the curve once again.

“Getting back to work and back to school is also about getting back to the basics with our COVID-19 safety measures. 

We need to redouble our efforts to ensure our layers of protection are always part of our daily routines – for everyone in our family. This will allow us to push our curve down once again. 

Take some time to think about your personal circumstances and those of your family. Who may be vulnerable to severe illness and what are you doing to protect them? With each of us doing our part, we can protect our communities, our elders and our loved ones. 

Let’s choose to keep our groups small. Let’s choose to be the person that stays home when we are ill and let’s choose to be safe each and every day while COVID-19 remains in our communities.”

You can review the full COVID report for Wednesday here.  

The BC Centre for Disease control has some valuable Coronavirus notes related to COVID-19 you can explore that information here.

You can learn more about the outbreak from both the Province and the Federal government from the links below:

Federal Government site

British Columbia Government site

The World Health Organization website also offers up the latest advisories on the global situation.

More from  Northern Health can be reviewed here 

You can review our archive of past statements and local information here.

Local governments and organizations have also provided for increased awareness of COVID-19 issues, those past advisories  can be reviewed here.

For notes from across Canada and British Columbia we have been archiving the latest items through our political portal Darcy McGee

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