Province recorded 16 COVID-19 deaths in the week ended Sept. 24
While B.C.'s data collection to track the COVID-19 pandemic is widely seen as not fully accurate, some good news today is that the province's weekly count of COVID-19 deaths fell by six to 16.
Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry in April said her new procedure for counting COVID-19 deaths would be to include all such deaths in counts for new deaths and in the overall death toll count. Glacier Media has asked the Ministry of Health why the death toll consistently rises more than the number of new deaths but has not received a satisfactory explanation. The ministry's most recent response was that the data "may be incomplete," but there has never been any updates to previously announced weekly death totals.
To manage the number of beds available in hospitals, the province will attempt to have as many as 1,300 patients be cared for in communities,
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