COVID-19 update: B.C. reports 9 deaths, upwards of 1,000 hospitalizations
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The B.C. government announced nine more deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday, as the number of test-positive patients in hospital exceeded 1,000 once again.
The B.C. government announced nine new deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday, as the number of test-positive patients in hospital exceeded 1,000 once again.
The update from the Ministry of Health pushed the province's seven-day average for coronavirus-related fatalities to 10.14 per day, the highest it's been since January 2021. All nine of the latest deaths were reported in the Fraser Health region.
There are now 1,035 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 across the province, down from B.C.'s all-time high of 1,054 announced Monday. That includes both patients whose COVID-19 infections are serious enough to merit hospitalization and those who were hospitalized for some other reason and tested positive incidentally.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care increased slightly, to 139.
Earlier in the day, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry revealed the rate of hospital admissions has started to decline across every age group, following weeks behind confirmed case numbers started trending downward.
"It does look like we are at our peak of hospitalizations," Henry said. "And this is where we would expect to be, given the modelling that we've been using to help us understand the trajectory."
Case numbers have not been considered accurate since officials started discouraging most healthy people from getting tested. There have been other indications that transmission is declining, however, including test-positivity rates and wastewater testing.
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