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    584 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

    Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Dec, 2021 05:25 PM
    • 584 COVID19 cases for Wednesday

    B.C. health officials announced 584 new cases of COVID-19 and 7 more deaths on Wednesday.

    In a written statement, the provincial government said there are currently 3,458 active cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus in B.C.

    A total of 193 people are in hospital, with 77 in ICU.

    Overall hospitalizations, which typically lag behind spikes and dips in new cases, are down by 13 per cent from last Wednesday, when 224 people were in hospital with the disease and about 48 per cent from a month ago when 376 people were in hospital.

    The number of patients in intensive care are the same as last week, at 77, but down 33 per cent from last month when 116 people were in the ICU.

    The provincial death toll from COVID-19 is now 2,393 lives lost out of 224,245 confirmed cases to date.

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