The weekly update for BC’s COVID
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The latest figures released by the British Columbia government show that the internal health authority again registered the most new cases of COVID-19 between 10 and 16 April.
Earlier this month, the provincial government stopped issuing daily reports on COVID-19 cases and deaths, replacing them with weekly reports instead. However, the latest weekly data are only available until April 16.
Between April 10 and 16, 2,036 new cases were identified in the BC, 599 of which were from the Ministry of Interior. That’s more than 522 cases in IH last week.
But with limited access to PCR testing across British Columbia, these data may not give an accurate picture of how many people are actually infected with the virus.
In the same week, 238 people were admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 in the province, 41 of whom were from the interior. In the province, hospitalizations fell by 51 from the previous week.
There remain 485 people hospitalized with the virus across the province, and 103 of them are in the interior.
The province also changed its COVID reporting to show ‘all-cause mortality’, which lists the number of deaths from COVID and others that occurred within 30 days of a positive COVID test.
“All-cause mortality is used, as the cause of death takes approximately eight weeks to register,” the BC Centers for Disease Control said in a statement.
“Retrospective estimates of the underlying cause of death will be made by the BCCDC, in addition to the data provided in this report to better understand true mortality from COVID-19.
From April 10th to 16th, 27 people died in the province within 30 days of a positive test for the virus, seven of whom came from the interior.
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