COVID-19 claims 6 more lives in past week, 168 people in hospital
CBC
New Brunswick has recorded six more COVID-related deaths and the number of people currently hospitalized because of the virus has increased to 87, including 13 in intensive care, according to Tuesday's update from the government.
That's up from 79 people in hospital and six in ICU from last week's COVIDWatch report.
But the province's hospitals are actually treating 168 patients with COVID-19, 19 of whom require intensive care, figures released by the Horizon and Vitalité health networks show. That's down from 192 and 21 respectively last week.
Unlike the province's website, which includes only people hospitalized for COVID, not people who were initially admitted to hospital for another reason and later tested positive for the virus, Horizon and Vitalité include both on their new COVID dashboards.
Patients hospitalized with COVID instead of for COVID still require extra precautions, such as isolation and personal protective equipment, for example.
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 people who died between April 17 and April 23 include two people in their 70s, three people in their 80s, and one in their 90s.
Three of the people lived in the Moncton region, Zone 1, and three lived in the Campbellton region, Zone 5.
COVID-19 was "a primary or contributing factor to cause of death as per the attending physician," the website states.
Horizon has 106 COVID-related hospitalizations, as of Saturday, down from 121 last week's report, its dashboard shows. Fifteen of those patients are in intensive care, down from 17.
Vitalité has 62 COVID-19 patients hospitalized as of Saturday, down from 71 last week's report, according to its dashboard. Four of them are in ICU (unchanged).
Both Horizon and Vitalité remain at the red alert level, which allows them to redeploy staff to maintain emergency services and ICUs, and could result in some non-urgent medical procedures and elective surgeries being postponed.
Although the number of active hospitalizations across New Brunswick increased, the province reports the number of people newly admitted to hospital between April 17 and April 23 decreased to 74 from 102 the previous week.
As a result, the seven-day moving average of hospitalizations for COVID-19, including ICU admissions, now stands at 86, down from 88.
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