COVID-19 hospitalizations proceed to rise in B.C., with 469 folks with lively instances at the moment in hospital.
Well being Minister Adrian Dix, throughout a press convention right now, stated that the province’s base hospital mattress capability is now 95.6 per cent occupied (8,821 of 9,229), with 24.9 per cent (580 of two,353) of surge beds occupied. Whereas Dix stated a area hospital is not going to be established at the moment, there are alternatives obtainable together with the Vancouver Conference Centre, which served as a makeshift hospital area earlier within the pandemic.
In all, there are 36,087 lively instances of COVID-19 in B.C. Of the 469 instances in hospital, 97 are in intensive care.
Provincial well being officer Dr. Bonnie Henry stated nearly all of hospitalizations and intensive care admissions proceed to be among the many unvaccinated. Of these at the moment in intensive care, three are unvaccinated folks of their 20s and one of their 30s.
“In case you are vaccinated, you might have much less threat of an infection, significantly after your booster. You’re more likely to have gentle sickness, to not want hospital care, to not want ICU care, and to not die from this virus. And the chance that you simply’re going to cross it on to others is dramatically lowered in comparison with individuals who don’t have that safety,” she stated.
Well being officers additionally reported 2,239 new instances of COVID-19 right now. Because the pandemic started, B.C. has recorded 286,080 instances.
Of the brand new instances, 383 are within the Vancouver Coastal Well being area (together with Richmond), 807 within the Fraser Well being area, 562 within the Island Well being area, 318 within the Inside Well being area, 167 within the Northern Well being area and two new instances of people that reside outdoors of Canada.
Thus far, 9,775,058 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer Pediatric COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C.; 4,146,540 of these are second doses and 1,239,995 are third doses.
Which means that 92.6 per cent of adults, 92.2 per cent of individuals aged 12 and older and 88.8 per cent of individuals aged 5 and older have acquired their first dose of a vaccine. As well as, 89.9 per cent of adults, 89.4 per cent of these aged 12 and older and 83.2 per cent of these aged 5 and older have acquired two doses; 28.6 per cent of adults and 26.8 per cent of these aged 12-plus have acquired three doses.
Sadly, there have been three new virus-related deaths reported right now, bringing that complete to 2,449. Of those that died, one lived within the Fraser Well being area, one within the Inside Well being area and one within the Northern Well being area.
Well being authorities reported 4 new health-care facility outbreaks and declared two over. Lively outbreaks proceed at 40 long-term care amenities (together with Richmond’s Fraserview Retirement Group), one assisted or impartial dwelling facility and 4 acute care amenities.
From Jan. 3 to 9, folks not totally vaccinated accounted for 19.4 per cent of instances. From Dec. 27 to Jan. 9, they accounted for 35.6 per cent of hospitalizations.
Previous week instances (Jan. 3 to 9)—Complete 19,206
- Not vaccinated: 3,125 (16.3 per cent)
- Partially vaccinated: 597 (3.1 per cent)
- Totally vaccinated: 15,484 (80.6 per cent)
Previous two weeks instances hospitalized (Dec. 27 to Jan. 9)—Complete 422
- Not vaccinated: 135 (32.0 per cent)
- Partially vaccinated: 15 (3.6 per cent)
- Totally vaccinated: 272 (64.4 per cent)
Previous week, instances per 100,000 inhabitants after adjusting for age (Jan. 3 to 9)
- Not vaccinated: 462.5
- Partially vaccinated: 195.4
- Totally vaccinated: 336.1
Previous two weeks, instances hospitalized per 100,000 inhabitants after adjusting for age (Dec. 27 to Jan. 9)
- Not vaccinated: 33.1
- Partially vaccinated: 11.7
- Totally vaccinated: 5.8
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