The Monday review, by way of a written statement, also relayed word of 23 deaths in the last 96 hours from the coronavirus, with two top health officials noting that the concerns over variant cases continue with 916 cases of the virus related to variants since April 1st.
“Today, we are reporting two periods: April 3 to 4, we had 999 cases, and in the last 24-hours, we had a further 890 cases for a two-day total of 1,889 new cases.
These periods are in addition to April 1 to 2, when we reported 1,018 cases, and April 2 and 3, when we reported 1,072 cases.
Those figures were provisional and have since been confirmed as 1,074 cases over April 1 to 2 and 1,077 cases over April 2 to 3.
Combined, this results in a four-day case count of 4,040 new cases, for a total of 104,061 cases in British Columbia to date.
There are 8,490 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 11,989 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases.
A further 94,806 people who tested positive have recovered.
Of the active cases, 318 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 96 of whom are in intensive care.
The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation.
There have been 23 new COVID-19 related deaths since April 1, for a total of 1,486 deaths in British Columbia."
Across the province, the Regional Health Authorities reported the following results: 579 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 986 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 100 in the Island Health region, 129 in the Interior Health region.
There were 95 new cases reported in the Northern Health region which brings the total of number of cases in the North since January 2020 to 6,139.
No new cases of COVID were noted for people in British Columbia who reside outside of Canada.
With the variants review, the totals since April 1st provided the following results: 916 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 3,559 cases (588 are active). This includes 2,771 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant, 51 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant and 737 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.
As for the vaccination program roll out, to date, 893,590 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,472 of which are second doses.
The message at the end of the long weekend, was much the same as it was at the start, one of caution to the spread of COVID, concerns over the variant increases and the need to remain on board with the range of measures currently in place.
“We know this virus is constantly changing and some of the new variants can spread more easily, but the same measures we know can still stop the spread and we have safe and effective vaccines on our side now.
It is more important than ever to stay on track with our vaccination programs, continue to use all our layers of protection all the time and follow the provincial health orders and guidelines.
If anyone in your family or household is feeling unwell, get tested and stay home from school or work. This is especially important for anyone who has been travelling in these past weeks, as transmission has increased.
Now is not the time to bend the rules – it’s time for us to work together again to bend the curve. It’s not easy, but it’s the right thing to do for our loved ones, for our local businesses and for the communities we live in.”
The full statement for Monday can be reviewed here.
As it was Saturday, there is no BC CDC Data available for the weekend, with the next release of their daily dashboard items to come on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 PM
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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