B.C. health officials to provide COVID-19 update
CBC
Health officials are providing a COVID-19 update for British Columbians on Tuesday afternoon.
Health Minister Adrian Dix and Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry are scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. PT.
CBC British Columbia will stream the event on its website and social media platforms.
As of Monday, the provincial death toll from COVID-19 is now 2,873 lives lost out of 348,305 confirmed cases to date.
B.C. health officials reported 549 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Monday, including 85 in intensive care, as the province recorded 22 more deaths from the disease and 974 new cases over the weekend.
The new numbers represent a decrease of 50 COVID-19 patients hospitalized within the last 72 hours, including 11 fewer patients in the ICU.
Overall hospitalizations, which typically lag behind spikes and dips in new cases, are down by 20.2 per cent from last week, when 688 people were in hospital with the disease and down about 44.5 per cent from a month ago when 990 people were in hospital.
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