No new deaths in B.C.'s latest COVID-19 update, a day after dozens announced
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B.C.'s latest COVID-19 update came with some welcome news: There have been no coronavirus-related deaths reported in the province over the last 24 hours.
B.C.'s latest COVID-19 update came with some welcome news: There have been no coronavirus-related deaths reported in the province over the last 24 hours.
The number of test-positive patients in hospital remained almost static at 986, while the number of those in intensive care climbed to 146, the Ministry of Health said Tuesday.
The lack of fatalities was a stark change from the weekend, which saw 32 COVID-19 deaths reported over three days. That pushed the province's seven-day average for coronavirus deaths to 13 per day, the highest it's been since Dec. 31, 2020.
Officials also announced one new health-care facility outbreak, at Rest Haven Lodge. Three others were declared over, leaving 55 active outbreaks in the health-care system, most at long-term care homes.
B.C. also confirmed 1,117 new cases of COVID-19, causing the seven-day average for infections to decrease to 1,357.
Daily case numbers have been trending downward for weeks, and while they are considered a fraction of the actual tally – largely because the province has stopped testing most healthy people – the government believes transmission has been declining.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has pointed to decreasing test-positivity and wastewater monitoring as evidence that the spread is slowing.
