More and more British Columbia residents are actively fighting COVID-19 infections, and the number of other people with the disease who are hospitalized is now at a point that hasn’t been noticed since early June.
There are now another 925 people fighting COVID-19 in the province, adding 22 at the hospital, the most since June 4. Seven of those hospitalized are in extensive care units, provincial fitness official Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix said Aug. 25. . a joint statement.
58 new cases have been known overnight, adding one suspicious or ‘ear-related’ case, meaning that since the start of the pandemic, British Columbia has discovered 5,242 cases of COVID-19. Of those patients, 4,114 recovered and 203 died.
Those fighting infections who are not hospitalized self-isolate at home. There are also 2675 other people who are under active public fitness surveillance due to known exposure to known cases.
The good news is that there have been no new deaths from the novel coronavirus that made the first impression in British Columbia. at the end of January.
The breakdown of all COVID-19 infections in the province across the fitness region is: • 1,683 for Vancouver Coastal Health (over 32); • 2,762 in Fraser Health (up to 23); • 168 on Island Health (more than two); • 425 in internal fitness (unchanged); • 128 in Northern Health (an increase); and • 76 people living outside of Canada (no change).
The Queen’s Park Care Center in New Westminster is experiencing an epidemic lately.
On August 25, Fraser Health Acting Medical Director of Health Elizabeth Brodkin spoke about two cases of COVID-19 in hospitals.
He said there had been a COVID-19 outbreak at Langley Memorial Hospital, affecting a single patient who was discharged and later tested positive for the disease. Brodkin declined to say when the patient at Langley Memorial Hospital was released, to protect his privacy. News of the incident arrived on August 25.
He added that at Royal Columbian Hospital, a staff member tested positive after performing surgery in an operating room. Brodkin said the case was probably contracted in the community, so it is not officially considered an outbreak at the hospital.
There are ten active outbreaks in the elderly: • at Holy Family Hospital in Vancouver; • Arbutus Care Center in Vancouver; • Czorny Alzheimer Center in Surrey; • Dania Home in Burnaby; • Derby Manor in Burnaby; • George Derby Center in Burnaby; • New Vista nursing home in Burnaby; • Maple Ridge Seniors Village in Maple Ridge; • MSA Manor Long Term Care Center (second outbreak); and • Bear Creek Villa in Surrey.
“There is no new outbreak on the web and the outbreak at Fraser Valley Packers Inc. is over,” Henry and Dix said. “There are occasions of exhibition of the network in other places and in flights to and from the province. “
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