British Columbia has reported the largest single-day jump in COVID-19 cases since March 28.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry confirmed 71 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, bringing the total to 1,795. Of those cases, 1,709 people have fully recovered.
Henry also said Wednesday that three more people had died of COVID-19, bringing the province’s death toll to 90.
But while the number of new cases spiked, hospitalizations maintained their downward trend.
B.C. reported 103 COVID-19 patients in hospital and 46 of them in intensive care.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil and the province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Robert Strang held a briefing Tuesday afternoon updating the latest COVID-19 numbers and detailing the province’s response to the pandemic.
Strang reported 43 new cases of the virus, marking the biggest one-day spike the province has seen so far, and bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 517.
He said 13 of the 43 new COVID-19 cases that were reported on Tuesday were from Northwood’s care facility in Halifax, where multiple staff and residents have tested positive. Strang said that all residents who have tested positive except for one individual were showing mild symptoms or were asymptomatic.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that New York state has seen its highest single-day increase in deaths due to COVID-19 on Tuesday with 779 deaths recorded.
Governor Cuomo said that the number of deaths is expected to “continue to rise as current hospitalized patients pass away due to COVID-19.”
Cuomo also said that the state has lost more people to COVID-19 than it lost during the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks.
New York has a death toll of 6,268 due to the novel coronavirus while 9/11 caused 2,753 deaths among New Yorkers.
