136 people in intensive care in B.C. hospitals as COVID refuses to ease
There was very little change in the number of people in B.C. hospitals with COVID over the past 24 hours. The number of people in hospital with COVID positive tests fell by 21 to 846 today, Feb. 11, while the 136 people in intensive care is only two fewer than yesterday, according...
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There was very little change in the number of people in B.C. hospitals with COVID over the past 24 hours.
The number of people in hospital with COVID positive tests fell by 21 to 846 today, Feb. 11, while the 136 people in intensive care is only two fewer than yesterday, according to a Ministry of Health news release.
About half the of people in hospital with a COVID diagnosis were not in there because of COVID but were tested after going to hospital for things like surgery, delivering a baby or being admitted to a mental health unit.
The number of new COVID cases in B.C. over the last 24 hours did drop slightly to 1,245 and the number in the Interior Health region fell to 335 from 444 yesterday.
The real number of cases is estimated to be three to four times higher because many people infected with COVID are not getting tested or using rapid tests that are not recorded in these figures.
There were 350 new cases in Fraser Health, 227 in Vancouver Coastal, 190 on Vancouver Island and 143 in the Northern Health region in the last 24 hours.
There were 17 more deaths, including three in Interior Health, bringing the pandemic total to 2,747.
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The province is no longer publishing the number of active cases because that number is no longer meaningful.
The vaccination rate for people over the age of 12 stayed at 93.1% with at least one dose, as did the 90.4% with at least two doses while 51.5% have three doses, a 0.4% increase.
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