Downward trend continues as COVID-19 hospitalizations fall 7.5% in a week – CBC

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Sep 01, 2022

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 declined for the fourth straight week, while the number of patients in critical care has also dipped in the week since the province last released data on COVID-19.

Data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control shows 306 people in hospital with COVID-19 as of Thursday, a decline of 7.5 per cent from the week before and down 25 per cent from 410 reported on Aug. 4.

Twenty-five patients are in critical care, down four from last Thursday.

The province also reported 33 more deaths between Aug. 21 and 27, bringing the total to 4,145.

The government’s weekly numbers, which it says are preliminary, are often changed retroactively due to delays in the count and the new way the province measures weekly cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-hospitalizations-fall-1.6570231