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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know about the coronavirus situation in British Columbia and around the world.
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April 28, 2022 • 1 day ago • 8 minutes reading • 34 comments Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the coronavirus situation in British Columbia and around the world. Photo from iStock / Getty Images Plus
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Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the situation with COVID-19 in British Columbia and around the world for April 28, 2022.
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We will provide summaries of what is happening here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day, adding developments when they happen, so be sure to check back often.
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• Weekly figures show another 42 deaths on April 17-23, an increase in hospitalizations and intensive care admissions • The second wave of Omicron has not peaked in British Columbia • The Quebec Health Institute predicts a drop in hospitalizations with COVID-19 • Health Canada actively monitors the country’s Omicron XE subvariant, one of several hybrid variants that have emerged recently • An EU study found that up to 80 percent of the population has COVID, while another study says more than half of Americans have been infected • Africa sees an increase of the COVID cases due to South Africa, says the WHO
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Here are the latest figures given on April 28 for the week of April 17-23:
• Hospitalized cases: 570 (as of April 28) • Intensive care: 47 (as of April 28) • Total number of deaths in seven days: 42 (total 3147) • New cases: 2276 in seven days • Total confirmed cases: 363 302
Read the full report here Next update: May 5 at 1 p.m. or later
LATEST NEWS about COVID-19 in BC
Six deaths a day, a significant jump in hospitalizations according to the latest weekly data
The latest weekly data on the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia paints a sobering picture of the persistent current wave of the Omicron variant.
Data released Thursday for the week of April 17-23 show 42 new deaths during that period, with an average of six people dying from COVID-19 every day. Twenty-seven died in the last weekly reporting period before that.
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A total of 3,147 have died from the new coronavirus in British Columbia since early 2020.
Even when those 42 victims of the virus were removed from hospitalization data, the number of people in hospital on Thursday rose from 485 a week ago to 570; 57 of them are in intensive care, which is a jump of 19 compared to last week.
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The second wave of Omicron did not reach its peak in BC
BC COVID-19 Modeling Group announced on Wednesday that the second wave of Omicron in BC does not seem to have reached its peak.
This is based on reported cases, cases of people aged 70 and over, hospital data and wastewater data.
The group says Omicron’s more infectious sub-variant BA.2 has become more common and now accounts for more than 80 percent of BC cases.
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Based on data from other provinces that are ahead of BC in this wave, the latest wave here will not lead to an increase in hospitalizations, the group said. The expected end of the wave will occur due to increased herd immunity.
The BC Ministry of Health no longer reports timely data on COVID-19. It now issues a statement once a week and is now one week old on the release date.
For example, the last published data was April 28, and that was for the period from April 17 to 23.
The Quebec Health Institute predicts a drop in hospitalizations with COVID-19
The number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Quebec is expected to decline over the next two weeks, the Quebec government’s health research institute said Wednesday.
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The National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services predicts that the number of people with the disease hospitalized outside intensive care will decrease by 1912 over the next two weeks, while the number of patients in intensive care will drop to 70.
The provincial health department reported 2,372 patients in hospital with the disease on Wednesday, down 37 from the day before. This includes 92 people in intensive care, an increase of two.
The institute said in a press release that it expects the number of new patients to drop to about 150 a day. On Wednesday, health officials said 213 people had been admitted to hospital in the previous 24 hours and 250 had been discharged.
– The Canadian press
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In Africa, there is an increase in cases of COVID driven by South Africa, says WHO
In Africa, there has been an increase in COVID-19 infections, largely due to a doubling of cases reported in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, urging people across the continent to continue to be vaccinated.
Africa has calmed down in COVID cases, with the WHO earlier this month pointing to the continent’s longest decline in weekly infections since the pandemic began.
But last week, cases began to rise in South Africa – the country with the highest number of infections and deaths in Africa to date – and health officials there are watching for signs of a fifth wave of infection.
“This week, new COVID-19 cases and continental deaths have risen for the first time in more than two months for cases and one month for deaths,” said Benido Impuma, director of infectious and non-communicable diseases in Africa at the WHO office. said at an online press conference.
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– Reuters
What you need to know about Omicron sub-variants
Health Canada is actively monitoring the Omicron XE sub-variant in the country, one of several hybrid variants that have emerged recently.
These types of variants are recombinant, meaning that they contain genetic material for two or more different variants or subvariants. Since the end of January, the Canadian Public Health Agency (PHAC) has learned of a total of 32 discoveries of Omicron recombinants, a PHAC spokesman said. They work to confirm the exact matches with the published recombinant sequences.
The XE variant, known as the “Omicron stealth”, is a recombination of Omicron BA. 1 and the highly portable Omicron BA. 2, which is currently driving Canada’s sixth wave. According to a technical briefing on April 8 issued by the United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA), XE also has three mutations that are not present in BA. 1 or BA.2.
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The first case of XE was confirmed on January 19, 2022 in the United Kingdom, according to a technical briefing. As of April 5, there were 1,179 confirmed cases of HE in the United Kingdom. They have since been reported in other countries, including Canada, India, Japan, Thailand and Israel.
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According to EU estimates, up to 80% of the population had COVID
The European Commission has said that between 60% and 80% of the EU population is estimated to be infected with COVID-19, as the bloc is entering a post-emergency phase in which mass reporting is no longer necessary.
In preparation for this less acute phase, European Union governments must increase immunizations against children’s COVID-19, the bloc’s executive said, signaling that it was considering plans to develop antiviral drugs.
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“It is estimated that between 60% and 80% of the EU population has had COVID so far,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told a news conference.
The EU’s Public Health Agency said the cases reported so far covered about 30% of the European population, but if undeclared infections are added, the number could reach 350 million, about 77% of the European population.
With the recent decline in COVID-19-related infections and deaths, the EU is now moving away from mass testing and case reporting, Kyriakides said, confirming what Reuters reported on Tuesday.
– Reuters
More than half of Americans have had COVID infections: An antibody study
Following a record increase in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron wave, about 58% of the U.S. population as a whole and more than 75% of younger children have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to the U.S. National blood test published on Tuesday.
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A study of blood samples sent to laboratories between December and February – when Omicron cases raged – showed that children, many of whom remained unvaccinated, had the highest rates of infection during the jump, while people aged 65 and over years – highly vaccinated population – had the lowest.
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