COVID deaths rise in Interior while cases & hospitalizations fall – Vernon Matters

Those were down from the previous weeks figures of 113 cases, 19 hospitalizations and three patients admitted to ICU in the Interior.

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The data from the BCCDC showed the Interior and the Vancouver Island Health authorities had the highest number of preliminary COVID deaths in the latest reporting week with 10 each, followed by six in Fraser Health.

The Interior had the second highest number of cases, between Fraser Healths 113 and Vancouver Coastal Healths 62 cases.

Local hospitalizations and critical care admissions were well below Fraser Healths 49 and 11, respectively, which were the highest figures in the province.

B.C., as a whole, recorded 349 COVID-19 cases, 116 hospital admissions, including 19 into ICU, and 31 deaths linked to the virus between Nov. 26 and Dec. 2.

Cases, and both hospital and ICU admissions were down from the previous weeks figures of 382, 116 and 19, though deaths were up from the 23 the week prior.

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