The first briefing on COVID since Friday delivered the usual stark amount of COVID infection counts, with a three day total push beyond the 3,200 mark over the weekend, noted sadly by the passing of eighteen more British Columbians from the coronavirus.
Today's wide ranging update, delivered by an online stream across the province also took note of the impact of the current surge on Health care facilities in the province, some concerns over vaccine supply in the short term period and the beginning of a return to reduced non essential surgeries at hospitals across the province.
The review as delivered by Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix highlighted the following themes.
“Today, we are reporting on three periods.
From April 9 to 10, we had 1,283 new cases. From April 10 to 11, we had 1,036 new cases and in the last 24-hours, we had a further 970 new cases.
This results in a total of 3,289 new cases, for a total of 112,829 cases in British Columbia.
There are 9,937 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 15,985 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases. A further 101,216 people who tested positive have recovered.
Of the active cases, 368 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 121 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.
There have been 18 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,513 deaths in British Columbia."
Across the province the case review from the provincial Health Authorities noted the following results: 741 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 1,957 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 167 in the Island Health region, 299 in the Interior Health region.
There were 125 new cases of COVID recorded over the weekend in the Northern Health region, that brings out total to 6,567 cases since January 2020.
There were no new cases of COVID reported by people in British Columbia who reside outside of Canada.
When it comes to the pace of vaccinations Doctor Henry and Minister Dix noted that 1,112,101 of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the province, 87,744 of which are second doses.
Today's briefing also noted that the province and WorkSafe BC will be working to identify any businesses that may be required to closed operations as a result of a spike of COVID exposures, those listings of the closed will be posted to the BC CDC website.
“Starting today, WorkSafeBC will be supporting public health teams, working with businesses where transmission has occurred in the workplace.
This order is one more way that public health teams across the province are doing all they can to slow this pandemic down.
For our health-care workers treating patients in critical care, our loved ones who are not yet vaccinated and our friends who have gone to work without pause, now is the time to show them through our actions that they are not forgotten. We do that by doing our part, and the time to do that is now.”
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| BC CDC data for British Columbia for April 12, 2021 |
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| BC CDC data for Northern health Region for April 9122021 |
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