2023-12-21 BC

The province will not be releasing data next week, so there will not be a BC posting on this blog next week.

Statistics

As of 21 Dec, the BC CDC situation report says that in the week ending on 16 Dec there were: +358 reported cases, +93 hospital admissions, +14 ICU admissions, and +19 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.

In the week ending 9 Dec, they now report that there were +419 reported cases, +131 hospital admissions, +30 ICU admissions, and +31 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.

For comparison, in the previous update, they reported that in the week ending on 9 Dec there were: +413 reported cases, +114 hospital admissions, +30 ICU admissions, and +21 thirty-day all-cause deaths*.

*All-cause deaths in people who had a positive COVID-19 test in the prior 30 days, that is.

There were 153 people in hospital and 12 in critical care with COVID-19 on 21 December.

Charts

From the BC CDC Situation Report:


There was only one day of data, so Jeff’s wastewater spreadsheet doesn’t look much different.