With the weekend totals in the books, the first day back to regular reporting showed little different from the last month, with another day of high levels of new cases and a increasing pace to the variants of the COVID virus.
The details of today's review came by way of a briefing from Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix from Vancouver.
“Today, we are reporting 1,068 new cases, including 33 epi-linked cases, for a total of 105,988 cases in British Columbia.
There are 8,671 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 14,118 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases. A further 95,691 people who tested positive have recovered.
Of the active cases, 328 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 three new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,489 deaths in British Columbia.
Across the province, the regional health authority's announced the following results: 352 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 492 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 73 in the Island Health region, 106 in the Interior Health region,
There were 43 new cases recorded in the Northern Health region, which brings the Norther region total to 6,294 since January of 2020.
As well, there were two new cases of COVID reported by people in British Columbia who reside outside of Canada.
Towards the vaccination program, to date, 912,056 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-SII COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 87,474 of which are second doses.
With the variants report, the weekend saw another rise in reports, with 207 new confirmed COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern in our province, for a total of 3,766 cases. Of the total cases, 266 are active and the remaining people have recovered.
This includes 2,838 cases of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant, 51 cases of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant and 877 cases of the P.1 (Brazil) variant.
“As expected, an increasing number of new cases of COVID-19 are variants of concern, and this is anticipated to continue as these variants take over from earlier virus strains."
At the heart of the concern over the spread has been the ongoing amount of travel and social activity taking place that officials suggest is not necessary and may be helping to spread COVID and resulting in the increasing returns of the last while
“Unnecessary travel and social gatherings are fuelling the fire for variant of concern transmission – and we all have the ability to slow that down.
All of our connections need to be safe, small connections using all of our layers of protection, all of the time. If you choose to spend time with anyone other than your immediate household, it must be outside, it must be small and it must be safe.
Let’s ensure we don’t lose any more ground from the progress we have made this year. Let’s all pledge to do our part today to slow the spread.”
The full statement for Tuesday can be reviewed here.
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| BC CDC data for British Columbia for April 6 2021 |
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| BC CDC data for Northern Health Region for April 6 2021 |
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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