COVID-19 hospitalizations in B.C. begin to rise as province braces for early flu season – CBC

367 people are currently in hospital with the virus, 30 in critical care

Sep 29, 2022

COVID-19 hospitalizations in B.C. are up this week, bucking a general downward trend that started in late July.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported 367 people in hospital with the virus Thursday, an increase of 20 per cent from last week’s numbers when there were 305 people in hospital. Thirty people are in critical care.

Provincial health authorities reported 16 new deaths linked to COVID-19, bringing the total number of COVID-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,283.

The government says the weekly numbers it shares are preliminary and are often changed retroactively due to delays in the count and a new method the province uses to measure weekly cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Deaths are now calculated based on whether they occurred within 30 days of a positive COVID-19 test, whether or not the coronavirus has been confirmed as the underlying cause. The centre says it is evaluating the cause of each person’s death retroactively to better understand “true COVID-19 mortality.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-weekly-update-british-columbia-1.6601549