Seven more New Brunswickers have died from COVID-19 in the past week, hospitalizations have increased, the number of new cases has declined, according to figures released Tuesday.
The BA. 2 subvariant of Omicron appears to be resurging in the province, accounting for 1% of the maximum number of recent samples submitted for sequencing.
But the Department of Health declined to disclose whether or how many of those cases are the new subline BA. 2. 75. 2, which has mutations that allow it to better evade immunity compared to vaccination and past infections, and is gaining traction across Canada.
“Public Health understands their desire to provide useful and applicable data to the public and would review their existing reporting practices that merit a new variant or sublineage of New Brunswickers’ fear,” spokesman Adam Bowie said in an email.
Although Bowie showed earlier this month that only one case of BA. 2. 75. 2 was detected in New Brunswick in September, the COVIDWatch report provides a breakdown of the five “major branches” of the Omicron variant, the ones that “spread most frequently. “— BA. 1, BA. 2, BA. 3, BA. 4 and BA. 5.
Of the maximum number of recent random samples submitted for sequencing, 94% were highly transmissible BA. 5 subvariants from Omicron and 5% were BA. 4 subvariants from Omicron.
The most recent deaths come with a user in their 50s, 3 in their 80s and 3 in their 90s or older. Their deaths bring the number of pandemic deaths to 592.
Another 38 people were recently admitted to hospital due to COVID between Oct. 23 and 29, up from 29 last week, according to the province’s COVIDWatch report.
There are now 43 active hospitalizations for the virus, to 33, adding two that require extensive care, one higher, according to the province.
Meanwhile, the two regional health governments say there are another 167 people with COVID-19 in hospital on Saturday, nine of whom require intensive care.
That’s a nearly 23% backlog from a week ago, when Horizon and Vitalité reported 136 hospitalized COVID patients, adding 8 in intensive care.
Unlike the province, which only reports on other people admitted to hospital due to COVID-19, Horizon and Vitalité include in their weekly reports other people admitted first for some other cause who then test positive for the virus.
Dr. Yves Léger, the province’s interim chief health medical officer, will not be available for an interview, Health Ministry spokesman Adam Bowie said.
Of those admitted to New Brunswick hospitals, 3 are 30 years old, one forty, two fifty, 4 60 years old, 15 60 years old, 8 8 years old and five 90 years or older, according to the province’s COVIDWatch report.
A total of 1,008 new ones were reported, up from 1,186 last week.
Of these, 589 were shown by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory test, with 692, and the remaining 419 were other people who reported testing positive in an immediate test, with 494.
Across Canada, the number of instances has remained “relatively solidArray. . . with a slight upward trend in weeks,” according to the COVIDWatch report.
In Maine, they are down from recent weeks, with an existing seven-day average of 211, he said.
The number of international cases has “declined after a few weeks of a solid number of cases. “
People aged 50 represent the highest percentage of PCR-confirmed cases in New Brunswick at 18. 3%, followed by 60-year-olds at 16. 3%, 60-year-olds at 15. 3% and 30-year-olds at 13. 6%.
People aged 40 and 80 concentrate the same percentage of cases, with 10. 5%, followed by twenty-somethings, with 8. 5%, those over 90 years or older, with 4. 2%, young people under 10 years with 2. 4% and young people over 10 years old, at 0. 3%.
The Moncton area, Zone 1, still has the highest percentage of PCR-confirmed cases, from 151 to 192.
COVID-19 degrees rose in Greater Moncton about two weeks before the report and then fell several days later, according to new wastewater tracking data.
The average seven-day viral load, expressed as the number of copies of viral genes discovered in one milliliter of uncooked wastewater, rose to 50 on Oct. 17, down from Oct. 13, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada COVID-19 wastewater tracking panel. By October 20, it had been reduced to 38 copies/ml.
The effects of wastewater can serve as an early warning of network infection levels for policymakers and residents. Other infected people shed the virus in their feces in the form of genetic curtains called ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which can be found in uncooked sewage, five to seven. days before symptoms spread.
The distribution of PCR-confirmed instances includes:
There are 847 active instances in the province only in PCR-confirmed instances.
New Brunswick has recorded 80,715 cases shown since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 79,276 are now resolved.
A fourth more dose administered in the past week, bringing the momentary booster rate to 24. 1% from 23. 4% a week ago.
In total, 53. 9 percent of eligible New Brunswick residents earned their first retirement, unchanged from the week.
First and second dose rates also remained unchanged at 90. 6 percent and 85. 5 percent, respectively, according to the COVIDWatch report.
The Department of Health provides a third and fourth recovery rate in the report.
Horizon Health Network reports 114 active COVID-19 patients at the hospital on Saturday, a 46% increase from 78 a week ago. Five are in intensive care, compared to six, according to their weekly COVID dashboard.
Most of the patients, 59, are in the Saint John Zone 2 area. Patient distribution includes:
Vitalité has 53 hospitalized COVID patients, up from 58 last week, according to his dashboard. Four require intensive care, two.
There are COVID outbreaks in 14 sets of hospitals in Horizon, up from 13. These come with 4 in the Moncton domain, six in the Saint John domain and 4 in the Fredericton domain. No additional main points are provided.
Vitalité has six sets with COVID outbreaks, the same number as last week. Three of them are at Campbellton Regional Hospital: the transitional care unit, the geriatric unit and the veterans unit.
The Chaleur Regional Hospital in Bathurst has two outbreaks: the General Medicine Unit (4 East) and the Psychiatry Unit. Edmundston Regional Hospital has an outbreak in the unit.
Horizon has 69 physical care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 and are absent, versus 57. Vitalité has forty-five employees inflamed, a minimum of nearly 46% of the 83 who were not working a week ago.
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