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B.C.’s COVID-19 health data shows cases of children in intensive care for the first time, as a deadly nine-week surge in deaths and hospitalizations subsides.
The latest B.C. Centre for Disease Control COVID-19 situation report — that looks at everything up to Jan. 9 — shows the number of weekly deaths, hospital admissions and cases had all fallen over the previous few weeks.
This came after a dreadful 11-week period between Oct. 4 and Dec. 19 where hospital admissions rose from 68 a week to 257 a week — and are now around 200 — and the number of deaths a week went from three to 115 per week — and had fallen since to around 50 a week.
COVID-19 cases peaked in B.C. in the week of Nov. 22 at 5,330 and have fallen to 3,845 in the week that ended Jan. 9.
The report showed 3,261 people had been hospitalized in B.C. since the first case appeared and Jan. 9, and 776 of those cases had ended up in intensive care.
The report’s “age profile, severe outcomes” category showed two cases under the age of 10, and three aged 10 to 19 that had ended up in intensive care.
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