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. for Sept. 23, 2021.
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We’ll provide summaries of what’s 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.
Check back here for more updates throughout the day. You can also get the latest COVID-19 news delivered to your inbox weeknights at 7 p.m. by subscribing to our newsletter here.
B.C.’S COVID-19 CASE NUMBERS
As of the latest figures given on Sept. 22:
• Total number of confirmed cases: 180,937 (5,458 active cases)
• New cases since Sept. 21: 759
• Total deaths: 1,910 (10 additional deaths)
• Hospitalized cases: 324
• Intensive care: 157 (up two)
• Total vaccinations: 4,038,966 received first dose; 3,692,922 second doses
• Recovered from acute infection: 173,215
• Long-term care and assisted-living homes, and acute care facilities currently affected: 23
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IN-DEPTH:Here are all the B.C. cases of the novel coronavirus in 2021 | in 2020
B.C. GUIDES AND LINKS
• COVID-19: Here’s everything you need to know about the novel coronavirus
• COVID-19: Here’s how to get your vaccination shot in B.C.
• COVID-19: Look up your neighbourhood in our interactive map of case and vaccination rates in B.C.
• COVID-19: Afraid of needles? Here’s how to overcome your fear and get vaccinated
• COVID-19: Five things to know about the P1 variant spreading in B.C.
• COVID-19: Here are all the B.C. cases of the novel coronavirus in 2021
• COVID-19: Have you been exposed? Here are all B.C. public health alerts
• COVID-19 at B.C. schools: Here are the school district exposure alerts
• COVID-19: Avoid these hand sanitizers that are recalled in Canada
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• COVID-19: Here’s where to get tested in Metro Vancouver
• B.C. COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment Tool
LATEST NEWS on COVID-19 in B.C.
Chilliwack elementary school closes due to an outbreak of COVID-19
Promontory Heights Elementary School is closed to in-person learning until October.
The Chilliwack school district made the announcement late Wednesday, saying the school community has seen a spike in COVID-19 infections in the last 10 days.
Students and teachers will switch to remote learning starting Thursday until Oct. 1 in an bid to stop the spread of the virus. The school will revert back to in-person instruction on Oct. 4, Monday.
Fraser Health has declared an outbreak at the school.
Students from affected grades and unvaccinated staff are required to self-isolate at home. Others will be asked to self-monitor.
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School exposures starting to mount in B.C.
There have been at least 183 exposures at 117 B.C. schools and child-care facilities over the last three weeks, according to the latest data from a parent-driven, B.C. based COVID-19 tracking service.
B.C. School COVID Tracker is a Facebook page that was set up last school year by Richmond mother Kathy Marliss and includes data based on exposure and case information submitted by teachers, parents and administrators.
The page was created because the provincial government wasn’t providing that data in a collated manner last school year and, until earlier this week, wasn’t going to release any exposure notices to parents at all this school year — only notices if there had been COVID spread at a school (a cluster or outbreak).
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Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reversed that decision earlier this week.
The Facebook page on Wednesday showed there had been 16 COVID exposures reported at schools the previous day. There were 7,604 exposure notices issued across all B.C. schools last school year.
According to B.C. Centre for Disease Control data released for the week of Sept. 9-15 (covering portions of the first two weeks back at school), there were 141 new cases in toddlers aged zero to four, 428 in those aged five to 11 and 309 in those aged 12-17.
Four of the 878 cases reported in those aged 17-and-under from Sept. 9-15 were hospitalized and one person aged 19-or-under is currently in intensive care.
— David Carrigg
B.C.’s vaccine holdouts now coming around as vaccine card rolls out
Resentful, but resigned.
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That was the prevailing attitude among those who emerged from Vancouver Coastal Health’s drop-in vaccination clinic at the Italian Cultural Centre on Wednesday.
They have now joined the 88.4 per cent of British Columbians older than 12 who have had at least one vaccination, and the 80.7 per cent who are fully vaccinated.
Many were not happy with being injected with a foreign substance, even though medical experts say vaccines are safe.
Some of those who agreed to talk said they decided to get the jab anyway in order to keep a job or return to public spaces such as a gym.
Simon McDonald, for one, seriously considered quitting his job once being double-vaxxed became a term of employment for him to continue work at his service-industry job.
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“I was pretty hesitant at first,” McDonald said. “Even after it was mandated, I was still hesitant and thought of quitting my job. But I can’t get in the gym or anywhere else (without being fully vaccinated). I can go to McDonald’s, but not the gym. And you’ve got to play by the rules.
“I don’t even take ibuprofen if I have aches and pains. I’m careful what I put in my body. So a big part of it (his objection to being vaxxed) is personal liberty, I guess.”
— Gordon McIntyre
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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