The Northern Health Region experienced an increase in new COVID-19 instances over the weekend, connected to an organization of others who attended a prayer meeting in Alberta before this month.
Before Christ. Deputy Provincial Fitness Chief Dr. Reka Gustafson said the total number of cases in the north since the start of the pandemic reached 117 on Monday, 10 more than Friday. On Monday, Northern Health issued an alert asking who attended the It Is Time Canada evangelical prayer meeting in Deadwood, Alberta. July 30 to August 2 to isolate itself.
“The Northern Health Authority reported those 10 cases, and yes, they were similar to this exposure,” Gustafson said. “Surely there is a possibility that there will be more exhibitions similar to this.”
The COVID protection plan of the occasion, published online, indicates that the occasion was limited to another hundred people at a time, social distance measures were taken, volunteers were taking the temperature and controlling others when they arrived, and hand sanitizer stations and masks were available. .
Northern Health connected 17 cases of COVID-19 with others who attended the occasion: 12 in other people who showed up and five are believed to have been secondary exhibitions. Ten of the instances were active on Monday.
Most cases are found in the Fort St. John area, according to Northern Health’s warning, the exposure alert applies to the entire Northeast health services area.
Currently, 24 other people are remote and are tracking symptoms themselves, according to Northern Health alert.
The purpose of asking these other people to isolate themselves is how many contacts they have if they get sick, Gustafson said.
At the provincial level, there have been 236 new instances of COVID-19 since Friday’s update, he said. That included a hundred new instances detected on Saturday.
“This is the number of moments (on a single day) since the start of the pandemic,” Gustafson said.
Now there are 740 active instances in British Columbia, he said. However, only 4 other people in the province are hospitalized with the disease, 3 of them in intensive care. Two other people died from COVID-19 over the weekend in Lower Mainland, raising the death toll in the province from the pandemic to 198.
The low number of hospitalizations, despite the accumulation of cases, indicates that the inhabitants of British Columbia are doing a smart task of protecting the most vulnerable citizens.
“Most infections involve young adults,” he said. “The disease can spread with very mild symptoms, or even with any symptoms. Other people may not realize they have COVID-19.”
For this reason, other people stay at home if they show symptoms of illness, he said, even the mildest symptoms. And anyone with symptoms similar to COVID-19 can and will be examined, he added.
While young adults are less likely to have severe COVID-19 symptoms, they can pass it on to other vulnerable people in their families, in paintings or in their communities, Gustafson said.
“What we have to do is let us all be in the same boat.”
Health Minister Adrian Dix said the provincial government and government had stepped up the application of fitness ordinances in establishments such as bars and banquet halls.
Three nightclubs in Greater Vancouver were closed over the weekend and officials conducted inspections at 128 banquet halls in VancouverArray, he said.
“We cannot allow a few to destroy it for all. Many of our efforts have been at best vulnerable. And yetArray … and still, 236 new instances this weekend,” Dix said. “One of the main considerations we have is personal parties, especially personal indoor parties.”
Ten suggested that others not organize and not attend personal parties. Find new tactics to socialize within your “bubble,” he says, because the return to the general is still a long way off.
“This pandemic will come to an end soon,” Dix said. “This pandemic of which we are all so tiredArray … continue until 2021.”