The updates, released on Thursday, will include data covering a period of one week until last Saturday. The COVID-19 control panel of the BC Centers for Disease Control will also move from daily to weekly updates, which include an inventory of the number of people admitted to hospital and intensive care. The first weekly report covers the period from March 27 to April 2, while the control panel is accurate from April 7.
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According to the Ministry of Health, the new model reflects a “surveillance” approach, as used with other respiratory illnesses such as influenza, instead of the “case management” approach, and focuses on “detecting significant changes in COVID-19 trends.” time in different areas of the province “. The story goes on under the ad “The new system continues to provide the data needed to guide public health decision-making and allows everyone to have an accurate picture of the COVID-19 climate in their area,” the ministry said in a statement. 7:30 COVID-19 infection numbers rise as BC prepares to lift another pandemic health measure COVID-19 infection numbers rise as BC prepares to lift another pandemic health measure The change in reports comes as the province enters what some experts believe is a sixth wave of the pandemic. Trending Stories
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After declining steadily for almost two months, the number of cases in BC hospitals has risen by 27 percent in the last two weeks. As of April 7, there were 324 cases of COVID-19 in BC hospitals, including 38 cases in intensive care or intensive care. According to the BC CDC’s first weekly report, the county reported 1,706 new COVID-19 cases and 193 COVID-19 hospital admissions between March 27 and April 2. The story goes on under the ad Of the imports, 81 were in the Fraser Health area, 52 were in the Internal Health area, 17 were in the Northern Health area, 38 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health Area and 32 were in the Island Health Area. Limited access to PCR testing means that confirmed COVID-19 cases continue to significantly underrepresent the actual number of cases in the community. The new report does not include introductions to the intensive care unit, which the county says will now be included in the BC CDC’s weekly status reports.
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The province is also changing the way it monitors deaths, moving to a “all-cause mortality” model that includes deaths from any cause among those who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 30 days. Thursday’s report tracks 11 such deaths. The story goes on under the ad The province said it was using “all-cause mortality” because it took about eight weeks to report an official cause of death. He acknowledged that the method would include some non-COVID-19-related deaths, but the BC CDC says it will make retrospective assessments of the cause of death to better understand true COVID-19 mortality. Since the pandemic began, British Columbia has reported a total of 357,242 cases, 19,897 hospital admissions and 3,004 deaths. © 2022 Global News, part of Corus Entertainment Inc.
