Vancouver, BC (WNews)- a total of 34 new COVID19 Cases and 4 new deaths have been reported BC.
Four more residents of B.C.’s long-term care homes have died of COVID-19, officials said Wednesday.
Highlights
- 34 New cases including new outbreaks;
- 4 new deaths reported;
- New cases at Clayton Heights Care-home;
- 13 outbreaks declared over;
- 89 people hospitalized;
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the province’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 109 people, more than half of them in long-term care or assisted-living facilities.
“Were almost there, we need to give it a bit more time, we still have cases and outbreaks in our community,”- Dr. Bonnie Henry
Henry reported 34 new cases of the virus, including single cases at two additional long-term care homes. One in Clayton Heights, Surrey. One of those homes, Langley Lodge, had previously had a COVID-19 outbreak declared over.
Large outbreaks at a pair of Metro Vancouver poultry processing plants also worsened Wednesday, now accounting for 92 cases. Single cases were identified at two new meat processing plants in the Lower Mainland earlier on Wednesday.
“Were almost there, we need to give it a bit more time, we still have cases and outbreaks in our community,” said Henry, referring to easing up on pandemic restrictions.
“These industry outbreaks, the poultry outbreaks, are a warning to us that we don’t quite have that way of thinking within our industries, within our businesses to ensure people aren’t coming in ill.”
Of B.C.’s 2,087 total confirmed cases, more than 62 percent have fully recovered, Henry said.
The number of people in hospital with the disease dropped to 89 Wednesday, while the number of people in intensive care fell to 35.
The government is going to be releasing modelling numbers next Monday so that plans to reopen the economy. Canada reported 137 new COVID-19 deaths; total of 51,586 cases during the last day.
