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The reproductive rate that determines how British Columbia is faring in the COVID-19 pandemic has fallen below one for the first time in months, the provincial health officer said on Thursday.Article content
“What we have been seeing is sort of bouncing around at one, which means for every person who’s infected, they infect one other person on average. Now we’re seeing that below one. That’s good news, but it’s just below one, which means that we have right now a fragile balance. We’re going down slowly.”
The WHO’s European region spans 53 countries and territories and includes several nations in Central Asia, and has already seen 78 million cases. Over the past four weeks, new case numbers have grown by more than 55 per cent, prompting WHO Europe director Hans Kluge to allow that the “current pace of transmission … is of grave concern .”Article content
“If we achieved 95 per cent universal mask use in Europe and central Asia,” he noted, “we could save up to 188,000 lives of the half million we may lose before February 2022. The spending surge is expected to reach a record $308 billion in 2021, say newly released projections from CIHI.“COVID-19 resulted in the single biggest increase in health spending we have ever seen in this country,” said CIHI president David O’Toole in a news release.
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