Hospitalizations down but deaths up due to COVID in B.C.
The number of people in B.C. hospitals with a COVID diagnosis dropped slightly again today to 612 from 653 yesterday. The number in intensive care dropped to 102 from 108 yesterday. This is part of an ongoing slow decline in hospitalizations due to COVID. But the number of deaths...
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The number of people in B.C. hospitals with a COVID diagnosis dropped slightly again today to 612 from 653 yesterday. The number in intensive care dropped to 102 from 108 yesterday.
This is part of an ongoing slow decline in hospitalizations due to COVID.
But the number of deaths climbed from one yesterday to nine today, Feb. 24, including two in the Interior Health region, according to a Ministry of Health media release. That brings the pandemic death toll to 2,840.
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.
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There were 597 new cases of COVID reported in B.C. over the past 24 hours, including 194 in Interior Health.
There were 118 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 64 in Vancouver Coastal, 113 on Vancouver Island and 108 in the Northern Health region.
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 take rapid tests that are not recorded in these figures.
The vaccination rate for people over the age of 12 was unchanged at 93.2% with at least one dose but the number with two doses increased slightly to 90.7%. The number of people with three doses also increased slightly to 55.1%.
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