Nearly one-third of the total COVID-19 patients in B.C. have recovered, the provincial health officer said Tuesday (March 24).
Dr. Bonnie Henry says 28 per cent of B.C.B次元官网网址檚 cases have recovered, even as the number of new ones grew.
Henry said the first two days of the week saw 145 new cases, with the provinceB次元官网网址檚 total hitting 617.
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The virus has spread to two new care homes, she added: one resident at Evergreen Heights in White Rock and one staff member at Little Mountain Place in Vancouver.
Henry confirmed reports that a dentist who attended the Pacific Dental Conference has died. He was in the Vancouver Coastal Health area, Henry said, but said she could not confirm if he had died as a result of COVID-19. There are 32 cases related to the event in B.C.
Henry said the key in B.C.B次元官网网址檚 fight against COVID-19 was to slow new cases to a B次元官网网址渢rickle not a flood,B次元官网网址� in order to keep the healthcare system from being overwhelmed.
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Health Minister Adrian Dix said hospital bed occupancy is at 66 per cent across the province, down from an average of 103.5 per cent. He said the critical care bed occupancy rate is at 55 per cent.
Dix said the province is doing about 3,500 tests a day.
He reiterated the need for 100 per cent compliance with social distancing and self-isolation rules.
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Henry said she did not believe B.C. would head the way of Italy, which has seen more than 69,000 cases and 6,820 deaths from COVID-19.
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Henry said she could not comment on the B.C. death rate among its COVID-19 cases. She said that while 13 deaths out of 672 cases may seem like a high death rate B次元官网网址� about two per cent B次元官网网址� but that it is an inaccurate way to measure. Ten of those deaths are associated with an outbreak at the Lynn Valley Care Centre, Henry said, noting that this skews the numbers.
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B次元官网网址淚t also reinforces the importance of all the work we need to do to protect our elders and those most vulnerable, particularly in our longterm care and assisted living facilities.B次元官网网址�
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