Number of those in ICU with the disease is lowest since mid-June
Metrics tracking COVID-19 in B.C. have largely been range-bound this summer, and are much lower than they were this spring.
Of the 398 people now infected with the disease and in hospital, 22 are in intensive care units, which is the lowest number since June 16, according to B.C. government statistics. Nonetheless, the province's data holds that there were 28 new COVID-19 deaths in the week that ended August 6. That is the same number as last week.
In April, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said that the process for counting deaths was changing and that the new procedure would be to include all deaths that involved people infected with COVID-19 in weekly updates and the overall death toll. She said that the province's Vital Statistics Agency would then determine that some deaths were not due to COVID-19 and that it would remove those deaths from the overall death toll.
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