10 more COVID-related deaths, 192 people in hospital
CBC
New Brunswick has recorded 10 more COVID-related deaths and 79 people are hospitalized because of the virus, including 13 in intensive care, according to the weekly update Tuesday from the government.
But there are actually 192 COVID-related hospitalizations across the province, figures released Tuesday by the Horizon and Vitalité health networks show.
That's up from 178 last week.
Unlike the province's new COVIDWATCH website, which includes only people hospitalized for COVID, not people who were initially admitted to hospital for another reason and later test positive for the virus, Horizon and Vitalité have launched their own COVID-19 dashboards, which include both.
And unlike the government's replacement for the COVID-19 dashboard, which includes weekly data up to and including the previous Saturday, their figures are current as of Tuesday and Monday respectively.
Horizon has 119 COVID patients, 10 of whom require intensive care.
Vitalité has 73 hospitalized COVID patients, including 10 in ICU.
The latest update comes about one month after the province lifted all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, such as masking and mandatory isolation for people infected with the virus. At that time, 103 people were hospitalized.
Now the province is facing the threat of a sixth wave that could be fuelled by a new Omicron subvariant called Omicron XE, which is a combination of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2. It's 10 per cent more transmissible than BA2, which is 60 per cent more transmissible than BA1, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Jennifer Russell has said.
The COVID-related deaths include those where COVID-19 was "a primary or contributing factor to cause of death as per the attending physician," according to the province's website.
The province no longer provides information about new COVID-related deaths, such as their age groups, or which health zones they lived in.
But a comparison of this week's report to last week's reveals the latest deaths include two people in their 40s, four in their 80s and four 90 or older.
Five of the deaths occurred in the Moncton region, Zone 1, two in the Fredericton region, Zone 3, and the other three in the Bathurst region, Zone 6.
The latest deaths raise the province's pandemic death toll to 368.
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