The surge of COVID has been slowed, but the case count remains still high as the province of British Columbian recorded another 853 new cases of COVID for the day, a case count similar to those found for much of the week.
Today's update from Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix was streamed live, with follow up questions from the media to explore some of the themes of the current COVID approach and the vaccination program that has started to pick up some speed.
“Today, we are reporting 853 new cases, for a total of 128,742 cases in British Columbia.
There are 7,996 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, with 11,628 people under public health monitoring as a result of identified exposure to known cases.
A further 118,937 people who tested positive have recovered. “Of the active cases, 503 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 178 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.
There has been one new COVID-19 related death, for a total of 1,577 deaths in British Columbia. Our condolences are with the family, friends and caregivers of the people who have died as a result of COVID-19."
When it comes to the province wide breakdown on the day, the Five regional Health Authorities outlined the following results: 181 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 574 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 30 in the Island Health region, 43 in the Interior Health region,
There were 25 new cases of COVID reported in the Northern Health region, the total number of cases of COVID now recorded in the Northern region since January 2020 is 7,141.
No new cases of COVID were reported today people for people in BC, who reside outside of Canada.
Today's vaccination count to date reached 1,749,375 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 90,296 of which are second doses.
In addition to the update on the vaccination numbers, Doctor Henry and Minister Dix used their information session today to outline some additional vaccination programs that have been introduced.
“The focus of the COVID-19 vaccine program is to protect as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, and to address hot spots and reduce transmission everywhere.
In addition to our age-based program, worker program and pharmacy program, we are using vaccines in hot-spot communities and workplaces.
This targeted outreach increases all of our protection by breaking the chains of transmission in these locations."
The two top health officials also observed that much more vaccine is anticipated to be arriving in the province in the coming weeks, urging British Columbians to register for an appointment.
The full COVID statement for Thursday, can be reviewed here.
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| BC CDC data for British Columbia for April 29, 2021 |
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| BC CDC data for the Northern Health region for April 29, 2021 |
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