Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C.
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Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C.Photo by Handout /via REUTERS
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Heres your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. for Aug. 6, 2021.
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Well provide summaries of whats going on in B.C. right here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day, with developments added as they happen.
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B.C.S COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS
As of the latest figures given on Aug. 6
Total number of confirmed cases: 151,839 (2,411 active cases)New cases since Aug 4: 464Total deaths: 1,772 (no new deaths)Hospitalized cases: 52Intensive care: 24Total vaccinations: 3,790,394 received first dose; 3,195,128 second dosesRecovered from acute infection: 147,627Long-term care and assisted-living homes, and acute care facilities currently affected: Six
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LATEST NEWS on COVID-19 in B.C.
Province ramps up restrictions in Central Okanagan
Health officials reintroduced a number of public health restrictions within B.C.s Central Okanagan in an effort to curb a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Confirming that more than 56 per cent of active cases are in the Interior Health Authority, Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry spoke to the public Friday.
They ordered restaurant patrons to be limited to groups of six or fewer and visitors at vacation rentals and houseboats to be capped at five.
Effective immediately, liquor service is suspended nightly at 10 p.m. and nightclubs and bars will be closed entirely unless they operate as a restaurant.
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High-intensity fitness gyms have also been ordered to close, while low-intensity workouts will be permitted with limitations on size.
Starting Monday, the province is restricting indoor personal gatherings to five people or an additional household.
All events in the region are allowed a maximum of 50 people.
VCH reducing number of vaccine clinics
Vancouver Coastal Health says it is seeing a significant reduction in the number of people attending immunization clinics so it is reducing the number of clinics.
It will continue to operate three mass vaccination clinics, one each in North Vancouver, Vancouver, and Richmond.
The health authority says resources from the other clinics will be redirected to help outreach efforts in communities where vaccine uptake has been slower.
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The following mass vaccination clinics will continue to operate after Sept. 1.
- ICBC Test Collection Site, 255 Lloyd Ave., North Vancouver
- Italian Cultural Centre, 3075 Slocan St., Vancouver
- River Rock Theatre, 8811 River Rd., Richmond
Additional clinics will continue be added in specific areas where vaccine uptake has been slower or there is need for additional capacity.
These clinics will be opened on an as-needed basis and published on the VCH website here.
As B.C. logged the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in Canada on Thursday, its top health officials continued to emphasize a battle strategy focused on vaccination.
B.C. reported 402 new daily cases on Thursday, the most since May 21, during the waning part of the third wave. Most of them, 234, were in the Interior Health region. The number of active cases of COVID-19 rose to 2,066, the highest it has been since early June, at the start of B.C.s fourth wave of infection. More than half, 1,121, were in Interior Health.
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The provincial health minister, Adrian Dix, and the provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, emphasized B.C.s vaccination strategy at a press conference Thursday.
Dix remained upbeat about the success of Walk-in Wednesday, calling the provincewide vaccination project, in which 6,130 people received their first dose, better than Christmas for a health minister facing a global pandemic.
Questioned about climbing case counts, the threat posed by variants and Quebecs decision to provide vaccine passports, Dix and Henry maintained B.C.s best shot of keeping the virus in check lies with a high provincial vaccination rate.
This is the path forward, said Dix. And we have to continue to press and push every single day.
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-Glenda Luymes
Daily case count and active cases jump again in B.C.
B.C. continues to lead Canada in new daily cases, with 402 more reported on Thursday while active cases rose 302 to 2,066. This is the most cases since May 21 during the waning part of the third wave of COVID-19 in B.C. and the most active cases since early June, at the start of B.C.s fourth wave of infection.
Active cases peaked in B.C. on April 16 at 10,081.
Interior Health continues to account for most new cases in B.C., rising to 58 per cent of all new infections on Wednesday.
Interior Health is half the size of Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health and roughly the same size as Island Health that was responsible for just over six per cent of cases on Wednesday.
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White House confirms U.S. may require foreign visitors be vaccinated
The White House confirmed Thursday it is considering requiring foreign visitors to be vaccinated as it plans to eventually reopen international travel but said it had made no final decision and was not immediately going to lift restrictions.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients confirmed an interagency working group is developing plans that foreign nationals may need to have some type of vaccine requirement.
He emphasized the White House has made no final decision on vaccine requirements and said that was one path under consideration.
Reuters first reported the White House effort to develop vaccine requirements on Thursday.
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-Reuters
B.C. MAP OF WEEKLY COVID CASE COUNTS, VACCINATION RATES
Find out how your neighbourhood is doing in the battle against COVID-19 with the latest number of new cases, positivity rates, and vaccination rates:
B.C. VACCINE TRACKER
LOCAL RESOURCES for COVID-19 information
Here are a number of information and landing pages for COVID-19 from various health and government agencies.
B.C. COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool
Vancouver Coastal Health Information on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
HealthLink B.C. Coronavirus (COVID-19) information page
B.C. Centre 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
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