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January 26, 2022 - 3:54 PM
The number of people in hospital with COVID is slowly declining with 949 reported today by the Ministry of Health.
The number of people needing intensive care treatment also fell slightly to 136 today, Jan. 26, from 144 yesterday.
Those numbers include everyone with a positive COVID test. It’s estimated that 45% of them have mild or no symptoms.
The number of B.C. residents who tested positive to COVID tests in the last 24 hours climbed by more than 500 in the last 24 hours to 2,086, according to a Ministry of Health news release. That includes 455 new cases in the Interior Health region, up from 319 yesterday.
There were 780 cases reported in the Fraser Health region, 464 in Vancouver Coastal, 219 on Vancouver Island and 168 in the Northern Health region.
Since most B.C. residents with COVID are told they don’t need to get tested or have rapid tests, the actual number of cases is likely three to four times higher, health officials have said.
There were 21 new deaths in the last 24 hours but none in Interior Health. Since the start of the pandemic 2,575 people have died.
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There are 30,958 active cases in B.C.
The vaccination rate for people over the age of 12 is unchanged at 92.6% with at least one dose and stayed the same at 89.9% for people with at least two doses. The rate for those with three doses has climbed to 42.2%.
The outbreak in the Brocklehurst Gemstone care home in Kamloops has been declared over.
The province said in a separate release it is delivering 250,000 rapid antigen tests to government-funded child care providers.
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