{"id":7069,"date":"2024-09-05T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2024-09-06T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:30:21","slug":"b-c-posts-highest-covid-19-hospitalizations-since-january-in-latest-monthly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-posts-highest-covid-19-hospitalizations-since-january-in-latest-monthly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. posts highest COVID-19 hospitalizations since January in latest monthly update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. has risen to its highest level since January, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control\u2019s latest monthly update.<\/p>\n<p>There were 214 test-positive COVID patients in provincial hospitals as of Thursday, according to the BCCDC. That\u2019s the second-highest total the agency has published all year, only slightly below the 219 seen on Jan.&nbsp;4, the first \u2013 and still highest \u2013 total reported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s update showed the number of lab-confirmed cases rose each week in August, with 365 new positive tests recorded during the week of Aug.&nbsp;4 to 10 and 462 recorded last week.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of tests coming back positive has also risen since the start of last month, jumping from 15.8 per cent during the week that ended Aug.&nbsp;10 to 18.7 per cent during the most recent epidemiological week, which ended Aug.&nbsp;31.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the highest test positivity rate the province has recorded since October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. has risen to its highest level since January, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control\u2019s latest monthly update.<\/p>\n<p>There were 214 test-positive COVID patients in provincial hospitals as of Thursday, according to the BCCDC. That\u2019s the second-highest total the agency has published all year, only slightly below the 219 seen on Jan.&nbsp;4, the first \u2013 and still highest \u2013 total reported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s update showed the number of lab-confirmed cases rose each week in August, with 365 new positive tests recorded during the week of Aug.&nbsp;4 to 10 and 462 recorded last week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-posts-highest-covid-19-hospitalizations-since-january-in-latest-monthly-update\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B.C. posts highest COVID-19 hospitalizations since January in latest monthly update<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[301,83,96,18,692,78,287,14,230],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b-c-centre-for-disease-control","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-resources-canada","tag-hospitalizations","tag-new-wave","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}