Date of publication: 28 Apr 2022 • 1 day ago • 8 minutes reading • 34 comments Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the condition of the coronavirus in BC. and around the world. Photo from iStock / Getty Images Plus
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Here is your daily update with everything you need to know about the situation of COVID-19 in BC. and worldwide for April 28, 2022.
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We will provide summaries of what is happening here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day, with developments being added as they occur, so be sure to check back often. You can also receive the latest COVID-19 news in your inbox at 7pm by subscribing to our newsletter here.
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• Weekly figures show 42 more deaths on April 17-23, increase in hospitalizations and ICU admissions • Omicron’s second wave not peaking in BC Health Canada is actively monitoring the Omicron XE sub-variant in the country, one of many hybrid variants that have recently emerged. • An EU study found that up to 80 percent of the population had COVID, while another study found that more than half of Americans Africa is experiencing an increase in COVID cases due to S.Africa, says WHO
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The following is the latest data provided on April 28 for the week from April 17 to 23: • Hospital cases: 570 (April 28) • Intensive care: 47 (from April 28) • Total deaths in seven days: 42 (total 3,147) • New cases: 2,276 in seven days • Total number of confirmed cases: 363,302 Read the full report here Next update: May 5 at 13:00 or later
LATEST NEWS for COVID-19 in BC
Six deaths a day, a significant increase in hospitalizations in the last weekly data
The latest weekly data on the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia paints a disappointing picture of a stubbornly persistent current wave of the Omicron variant. Data released Thursday for the week of April 17-23 showed 42 recently reported deaths during this period, with an average of six people dying from COVID-19 each day. Twenty-seven died in the last weekly reporting period prior to this.
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A total of 3,147 have died from the new coronavirus in BC. from the beginning of 2020. Even when those 42 victims of the virus were removed from hospital records, the number of people hospitalized since Thursday rose from 485 a week ago to 570. 57 of them are in intensive care, a jump of 19 from last week. Read the full story here. – Joseph Rattle
The second wave of Omicron did not peak in BC
The BC COVID-19 Modeling Group said Wednesday that the second Omicron wave in BC does not appear to have peaked. This is based on reported cases, cases aged 70 and over, hospital data and sewage data. The team says Omicron’s most contagious BA.2 subtype has become more common and now accounts for more than 80 percent of BC cases.
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Based on data from other provinces that precede BC. in this wave, the last wave here will not lead to an increase in hospitalizations, the team said. The expected end of the wave will occur due to the increased immunity of the herd. The BC Ministry of Health no longer reports timely data on COVID-19. It now issues a statement once a week and the release date is already one week. For example, the last data released was on April 28 and was for the period from April 17 to 23.
Quebec Institute of Health predicts reduction in COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Quebec is expected to decline over the next two weeks, a Quebec government health research institute said on Wednesday.
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The Institut National d ‘Excellence en sante et en services sociaux predicts that the number of people with the disease being treated outside of intensive care will be reduced to 1,912 over the next two weeks, while the number of patients in the intensive care unit will be reduced to 70. The provincial health ministry reported 2,372 patients in hospital with the disease on Wednesday, down 37 from the previous day. That included 92 people in the intensive care unit, an increase of two. The institute said in a press release that it expects the number of new patients to drop to about 150 a day. On Wednesday, health officials said 213 people had been admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours and 250 had been discharged. – The Canadian Press
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Africa is experiencing an increase in COVID cases due to S.Africa, says WHO
Africa is experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections, mainly due to the doubling of cases reported in South Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, urging people across the continent to continue to be vaccinated. Africa has experienced a calm in coronavirus outbreaks, with the WHO earlier this month pointing to a long-term decline in weekly infections on the continent since the pandemic began. Last week, however, cases began to rise in South Africa – the country with the highest number of infections and deaths in Africa to date – and health officials there are monitoring for signs of a fifth wave of infection. “This week new cases of COVID-19 and deaths on the continent increased for the first time after a reduction of more than two months for cases and one month for deaths,” said Benido Impouma, WHO Director of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in Africa. . office, he said in an online press conference.
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What you need to know about Omicron variants
Health Canada is actively monitoring the XE Omicron sub-variant in the country, one of the many hybrid variants that have recently appeared. These types of variants are recombinant, meaning that they contain genetic material for two or more different variants or subtypes. As of the end of January, the Public Health Service of Canada (PHAC) had been notified of a total of 32 recombinant Omicron scans, a PHAC spokesman said. They work to confirm exact matches with published recombinant sequences. The XE variant, known as the “stealth Omicron”, is a recombination of the Omicron BA. 1 and the high transmissibility Omicron BA. 2, which is currently leading the sixth wave of Canada. According to an April 8 technical update issued by the UK Health Insurance Agency (UKHSA), XE also has three mutations that are not present in BA. 1 or BA.2.
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The first XE case was confirmed on 19 January 2022 in the United Kingdom, according to the technical update. As of April 5, 1,179 XE cases have been confirmed in the UK. They have since been reported in other countries, including Canada, India, Japan, Thailand and Israel. Read the full story here. – National Post Office
The EU estimates that up to 80 percent of the population had COVID-19
The European Commission has said that between 60 per cent and 80 per cent of the EU population is estimated to be infected with COVID-19, as the bloc enters a post-emergency phase in which mass reporting was no longer necessary. In preparation for this less acute phase, European Union governments should step up vaccinations of children against COVID-19, the bloc’s executive body said, signaling that it was considering plans to develop antiviral drugs.
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“It is estimated that between 60 per cent and 80 per cent of the EU population has COVID-19 so far,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakidis told a news conference. The EU Public Health Agency said the reported cases had covered about 30% of the European population so far, but if unreported infections were added, the cases could reach 350 million, about 77 per cent of the European population. With the recent drop in COVID-19-related infections and deaths, the EU is now moving away from mass testing and case reporting, Kyriakidis said, confirming what Reuters reported on Tuesday. – Reuters
More than half of Americans have had COVID infections: an antibody test
Following a record rise in COVID-19 cases during the Omicron wave, about 58% of the U.S. population as a whole and more than 75 percent of younger children have been infected with the coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic, according to with an American Panhellenic blood test released on Tuesday.
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A study of blood samples sent to laboratories between December and February – when the Omicron cases were raging – showed that children, many of whom remained unvaccinated, had the highest rates of infection during the outbreak, while those aged 65 and over – a heavily vaccinated population – had the lowest. Scientists have looked for specific antibodies produced in response to …
