COVID-19 Update for September 29: New Restrictions for Fraser Valley East | BC will now include all hospitalized patients in daily statistics | 652 new cases, two deaths

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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know about the novel coronavirus situation in British Columbia for September 29, 2021.

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We will provide summaries of what is happening in BC right here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated periodically throughout the day, and updates will be added as they happen.

Check back here for more updates throughout the day. You can also get the latest COVID-19 news delivered to your inbox on weekends at 7pm by signing up for our newsletter. here.

BC COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS

According to the latest figures given on September 28:

• Total number of confirmed cases: 185,432 (5,992 active cases)
• New cases since September 27: 652
• Total deaths: 1,942 (two additional deaths)
• Hospitalized cases: 316
• Intensive care: 141
• Total vaccinations: 4,068,060 received the first dose; 3,736,540 second doses
• Recovered from acute infection: 177,113
• Long-term care and assisted living homes and acute care facilities currently affected: 22

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IN DEEP:Here are all the cases of BC from the new coronavirus in 2021 | in 2020

BC GUIDES AND LINKS

• COVID-19: Here is everything you need to know about the new coronavirus

• COVID-19: Here’s how to get vaccinated in British Columbia

• COVID-19: Find your neighborhood on our interactive map of cases and vaccination rates in BC

• COVID-19: Fear of needles? Here’s how to get over your fear and get vaccinated

• COVID-19: Five things to know about the spread of the P1 variant in BC

• COVID-19: Here are all the BC cases of the new coronavirus in 2021

• COVID-19: Have you been exposed? Here are all the BC public health alerts

• COVID-19 in BC schools: here are the school district’s exposure alerts

• COVID-19: Avoid These Recalled Hand Sanitizers in Canada

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• COVID-19: Here’s where to get tested in Metro Vancouver

• BC COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool

LATEST NEWS on COVID-19 in BC

Young people continue to bear the brunt of British Columbia’s COVID-19 pandemic

The latest figures from the BC Center for Disease Control show that 190 of the 652 cases reported Tuesday were in people age 19 and younger (111 age 10 or younger and 79 age 19 to 10).

This trend started two weeks ago after school, colleges and universities resumed classes after summer break.

There are currently 5,992 active COVID-19 cases in British Columbia, of which 316 are being treated in hospital, including 141 in intensive care. There are 142 people in the hospital who arrived with COVID-19 but are now free of the infection, but they are still very ill.

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3,201 first doses of vaccine were administered on Monday and 6,934 second doses. Eighty point six percent of British Columbia residents age 12 and older are now fully vaccinated.

Restrictions Established for Fraser Valley East

New restrictions were ordered limiting social gatherings and requiring the wearing of masks in workplaces to combat the increase in COVID-19 cases and the increase in hospitalizations in the region.

the restrictions, announced Tuesday by provincial health official Dr. Bonnie Henry, limits private indoor gatherings to an additional five people per household or 10 people for outdoor gatherings, unless all are fully vaccinated.

Weddings and conferences are also limited to 10 indoors and 50 outdoors, unless all participants have received two doses of the vaccine.

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Masks are required in all indoor workplaces, unless people are working behind a barrier or in a room by themselves.

BC will now include all hospitalized COVID patients in daily statistics

The province will now release a count of non-infectious COVID-19 patients remaining in the hospital when it compiles its daily pandemic statistics, BC’s top public health official announced Tuesday.

Dr. Bonnie Henry made the announcement after facing questions from the media about why the government had not included all hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the numbers it publishes daily to the public.

“It’s a fun way to report hospitalizations,” said UBC Professor Sarah Otto, who specializes in mathematics, of BC’s original methodology. “It makes (the numbers) sound better than they are.”

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Otto said it is important for people to know the actual number of people in hospitals and the overall occupancy rates for hospitals and ICUs so they can determine what the probability is that the average person will end up in the hospital with COVID-19. .

“The other reason is that it helps me determine how many of our hospital and ICU beds are occupied and how likely it is that my surgery will be canceled due to COVID cases” that are already filling the beds, he said.

-Susan Lazaruk

What will the ‘new normal’ of Metro Vancouver look like?

On Father’s Day last June, Iani Makris slowly roasted a lamb on a rotisserie in front of his Gastown restaurant in a temporary yard where cars used to park, a yard like the ones that emerged in Metro Vancouver townships when the pandemic broke out. seized of.

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Family, friends and regulars later enjoyed the succulent lamb provided by the Greek Gastown, a feast that had been turned by hand and cooked over a continuous fire for about six hours as the few tourists there stopped to take photos.

Makris and other restaurant owners, depending on where they are in Metro Vancouver, can now move on knowing that their new or expanded patios are here forever, one of the many changes COVID-19 imposed on us in BC that now seem to have become permanent.

Read more here.

-Gordon McIntyre

BC MAP OF WEEKLY COVID CASE RECORDS, VACCINATION RATES

Find out how your neighborhood is doing in the battle against COVID-19 with the latest number of new cases, positivity rates, and vaccination rates:

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BC VACCINES FOLLOW-UP

LOCAL RESOURCES for information on COVID-19

Here is a host of information and landing pages for COVID-19 from various health and government agencies.

• BC COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool

• Vancouver Coastal Health – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Information

• HealthLink BC – Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Page

• BC Center for Disease Control – Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Government of Canada – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Outbreak Update

• World Health Organization – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak

–With files from The Canadian Press