N.B. records 3 more COVID-19 deaths, hospital admissions decrease
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COVID-19 has killed three more New Brunswickers, raising the province's pandemic death toll to 877, figures released Tuesday show.
Hospital admissions because of the virus decreased in the past week, while the number of confirmed cases and positivity rate remained "stable," the COVIDWatch report says.
None of the deaths occurred during the reporting week, April 9 to April 15.
One person died in March and the other two in January, a graphic in the report indicates. There is an average two-month lag from date of death to the registration of death, it says.
All three people were aged 70 or older, a comparison of data in the latest report to last week's report reveals.
Twelve people were admitted to the hospital because of COVID in the past week, down from 19 in the previous report. One of them required intensive care, the same number as a week ago.
Among the new admissions was one person aged 20 to 59, one aged 60 to 69 and 10 aged 70 or older.
The two regional health authorities say they have 35 people in hospital who were either admitted because of COVID or initially admitted for another reason and later tested positive for the virus. That's down from 39 a week ago.
Horizon and Vitalité report no one in intensive care, as of Saturday.
CBC asked the Department of Health about the discrepancy in the ICU numbers and whether the one person it reported no longer requires intensive care, but spokesperson Sean Hatchard redirected inquiries to the regional health authorities.
Neither Horizon nor Vitalité were able to provide an answer by the end of the work day.
A total of 102 new cases of COVID have been confirmed through 913 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests. That's a positivity rate of 11 per cent.
The positivity rate — an indicator of community transmission — was also 11 per cent a week ago when 98 new cases were confirmed through 890 PCR tests.
An additional 55 people self-reported testing positive on a rapid test, down from 79, according to figures from the Department of Health.
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