Here\u0027s your daily update with everything you need to know on the coronavirus situation in B.C.
3 p.m. or later – Health officials are set to share latest figures on COVID-19 in B.C.
On Tuesday, Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, said the province has robust surveillance systems in place that allow policy-makers to see trends and make decisions about how to respond to the pandemic. But the report on Wednesday by the independent modelling group — which includes experts in epidemiology, mathematics and data analysis from several B.C. universities and the private sector — says hospitalizations could remain at current levels or could increase to more than 1,000 as at the peak of the first Omicron wave in late January.Article contentThe World Health Organization had confirmed it is tracking a new subvariant of the Omicron variant — calling it XE.
B.C. has one of the highest vaccination uptakes in the world, according to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry — with 90.9 per cent of all people aged five and over having had at least one shot. COVID-19 cases in hospital remains fairly steady, with a drop of five cases to 329 on Tuesday. There are 37 people in intensive case due to the disease.B.C. has signed off on a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines for all those age 70 and older this spring, the latest province to expand booster eligibility.