COVID-19 update for Aug. 24: Here’s what you need to know

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Here is your each day replace with all the pieces you must know on the coronavirus state of affairs in B.C. and around the globe.

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Right here’s your replace with all the pieces you must know on the COVID-19 state of affairs in B.C. and around the globe for Aug. 24, 2022.

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We’ll present summaries of what’s happening proper right here so you may get the most recent information at a look. This web page can be up to date often every single day this week, with developments added as they occur, so be sure you verify again typically.

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You can too get the most recent COVID-19 information delivered to your inbox weeknights at 7 p.m. by subscribing to our publication right here.


Listed below are the most recent weekly B.C. figures given on Aug. 18:

• Hospitalized circumstances: 366
• Intensive care: 22
• New circumstances: 877 over seven days ending Aug. 13
• Whole variety of confirmed circumstances: 381,049
• Whole deaths over seven days ending Aug. 13: 24 (whole 4,037)

Learn the total report right here | Subsequent replace: Aug. 25


Headlines at a look

• Germany to tighten journey guidelines for fall and winter
• MP says Ottawa underestimated Canadians’ need to journey once more
• Quebec reported 29 extra deaths attributed to COVID-19 Tuesday
• Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine was 73 per cent efficient in children beneath 5: Knowledge
• Japan could carry journey testing and traveller restrictions: Media
• AstraZeneca, one of many earliest to develop a vaccine, would possibly get out of them altogether
• U.S. infectious illness professional Dr. Anthony Fauci is retiring in December
• Western College in Ontario stands agency on masks, vaccine mandates in fall
• Pfizer is searching for approval for a combo COVID vaccine defending towards latest Omicron variants
• Japan PM Fumio Kishida has examined optimistic for COVID-19
• Restoration nonetheless a robust go for B.C. companies
• Canada approves Pfizer booster shot for five- to 11-year-olds
• For each reported case in B.C., 100 folks get sick: Impartial modelling group
• It’s virtually again to high school. What’s going to it’s like with COVID this 12 months?
• COVID deaths in B.C. surpass 4,000 mark

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LATEST NEWS

MP says Ottawa underestimated Canadians’ need to journey once more

A member of Parliament says Ottawa could have underestimated Canadians’ need to journey when planning for a return to regular following the top of most pandemic restrictions.

Airways and airports have been grappling with a surge in prospects this summer season, compounded by staffing shortages affecting each carriers and federal businesses.

Because of this, travellers have skilled widespread flight cancellations, baggage delays and prolonged lineups, notably at Toronto’s Pearson Worldwide Airport.

— The Canadian Press

Germany tightens COVID guidelines for journey throughout fall, winter

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cupboard accepted laws Wednesday that ensures fundamental protecting measures towards the coronavirus pandemic are continued in the course of the fall and winter when extra virus circumstances are anticipated.

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The presentation of the foundations — which additionally embody the brand new obligation to put on N95-type face masks throughout all long-distance journey by prepare and bus in addition to on planes — coincided with the publication of pictures displaying the chancellor and German Financial system Minister Robert Habeck flying to Canada earlier this week with out sporting masks.

The photographs triggered robust public criticism of an alleged double normal for politicians and common folks. At the moment, medical face masks are necessary on planes and public transport although N95-style masks are really useful.

— Reuters

Quebec studies 29 extra deaths, slight dip in hospitalizations

Quebec has reported 29 new deaths attributed to COVID-19.

There have been 1,959 hospitalizations, a lower of 40 over the day gone by, the Well being Ministry introduced Tuesday.

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A complete of 46 individuals are in intensive care, a rise of 4 from the day gone by.

— Montreal Gazette

Pfizer’s COVID vaccine 73.2% efficient in children beneath 5, new knowledge reveals

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s vaccine was 73.2% efficient in stopping COVID-19 amongst youngsters aged 6 months by 4 years, new knowledge from the businesses confirmed on Tuesday, two months after the U.S. rollout of the pictures started for that age group.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for youngsters beneath 5 years of age in June, based mostly on knowledge that confirmed the vaccine generated the same immune response as in older age teams.

An early evaluation based mostly on 10 symptomatic COVID-19 circumstances within the examine had recommended a vaccine efficacy of 80.3%. However specialists had warned that the information was preliminary resulting from a low variety of symptomatic circumstances.

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— Reuters

Japan weighs stress-free border guidelines on COVID: Media

Japan could carry necessities for pre-departure COVID-19 assessments for travellers and lift each day caps on entrants, home media have reported.

Japan has among the strictest pandemic border measures amongst main economies, requiring travellers to current a unfavorable coronavirus check taken inside 72 hours of departure.

The federal government could quickly waive assessments for vaccinated passengers, with the change taking impact in just a few weeks, Nikkei reported late Monday. A each day cap of inbound travellers could also be raised from 20,000 to 50,000 as early as subsequent month, Fuji Information Community stated on Tuesday.

— Reuters

AstraZeneca could not keep in vaccines, however CEO has no COVID regrets

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AstraZeneca could not keep within the vaccine enterprise in the long term, its CEO instructed Reuters on Tuesday, displaying how shortly fortunes have modified for the drugmaker that produced one of many first COVID-19 pictures however has since misplaced out to rivals.

Manufacturing delays, probes by regulators following uncommon circumstances of extreme unintended effects and considerations about its comparatively quick shelf life in contrast with different pictures have stymied adoption of the corporate’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Now, within the third 12 months of the pandemic amid a world vaccine provide glut, its use has diminished in a lot of the developed world as nations have inoculated giant numbers of individuals and like Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines as boosters.

AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine has nonetheless not gained U.S. approval.

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— Reuters

Dr. Fauci, high U.S. infectious illness professional, to retire in December

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s high infectious illness professional who grew to become a family identify — and the topic of partisan assaults — in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, introduced Monday he’ll depart the federal authorities in December after greater than 5 many years of service.

Fauci, who serves as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has been the director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He was a pacesetter within the federal response to HIV/AIDS and different infectious ailments even earlier than the coronavirus hit.

“I can be leaving these positions in December of this 12 months to pursue the subsequent chapter of my profession,” Fauci stated in an announcement, calling these roles “the honour of a lifetime.”

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— Related Press

Ontario’s Western College stands agency on masks, COVID vaccines for college students

Masks and proof of vaccination can be required when hundreds of Western College college students converge on campus for a brand new faculty 12 months in two weeks.

Returning college students, college and employees should be totally vaccinated towards COVID-19 and have acquired not less than one booster.

Besides the place college students might be two metres aside, college students should don medical-grade masks in lecture rooms and seminar rooms.

— London Free Press

Pfizer seeks U.S. approval of up to date COVID-19 vaccine for fall

Pfizer requested U.S. regulators Monday to authorize its mixture COVID-19 vaccine that provides safety towards the latest omicron kin — a key step towards opening a fall booster marketing campaign.

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The Meals and Drug Administration ordered vaccine makers to tweak their pictures to focus on BA.4 and BA.5 which are higher than ever at dodging immunity from earlier vaccination or an infection.

If the FDA shortly clears the combo pictures made by Pfizer and its companion BioNTech, boosters might be supplied inside weeks. The U.S. has a contract to purchase 105 million of the up to date Pfizer doses as quickly as well being authorities greenlight them, and the corporate stated doses are able to ship.

Moderna is anticipated to file the same software quickly, and the U.S. has a contract to purchase 66 million doses of its up to date vaccine.

— Related Press

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida assessments optimistic for COVID-19

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been recognized with the coronavirus Sunday and canceled his deliberate travels whereas he isolates and recuperates.

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Kishida developed a slight fever and cough late Saturday and examined optimistic in a COVID-19 PCR check, stated Noriyuki Shikata, the cupboard secretary for public affairs on the prime minister’s workplace.

“Prime Minister Kishida is remoted inside his residence,” he instructed The Related Press on Sunday.

— Reuters

Restoration nonetheless a troublesome go for B.C. companies

Darren Homosexual’s area of interest video-rental enterprise had already grow to be precarious by New Years 2020, nevertheless it was secure sufficient that he was considering of how to diversify Black Canine Video’s operations on Industrial Drive.

As an alternative, his enterprise was crushed by a buyer base that largely simply stayed residence throughout COVID-19 restrictions and haven’t returned in sufficient numbers to assist with the lease enhance he was hit with in January, rising insurance coverage prices and more and more costly costs to inventory stock.

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“Our final day was June 25,” Homosexual stated of his resolution to lastly pull the plug, “as a result of I knew that I wanted, like, 5 days to get all the pieces out of there.”

Homosexual isn’t alone. There are indicators a sizeable variety of B.C. companies are nonetheless beneath stress with gross sales that haven’t matched pre-pandemic ranges whereas their prices are rising, the Canadian Federation of Impartial Enterprise present in a latest survey.

Some 17 per cent of respondents admitted to contemplating winding up their operations, and even declaring chapter.

Learn the total story right here.

 — Derrick Penner

Canada approves Pfizer booster dose for youths between 5 and 11 years previous

Chief public well being officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Well being Canada is authorizing a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for youngsters between 5 and 11 years previous.

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Tam says the Nationwide Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends youngsters with underlying well being circumstances be supplied a booster no sooner than six months after their second dose.

NACI’s recommendation says all different youngsters in that age group may additionally be supplied a booster.

Vaccine uptake in that age group is way decrease than in all older demographics, with 42 per cent of youngsters aged 5 to 11 vaccinated with two doses.

The vaccine price in each older demographic is larger than 83 per cent.

— The Canadian Press

For each reported case in B.C., 100 folks get sick: studies

The true variety of COVID-19 circumstances in B.C. might be as a lot as 100 instances larger than what’s being reported publicly by the federal government, in response to an evaluation by unbiased modellers.

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The B.C. modelling group — which incorporates specialists from the College of B.C., Simon Fraser College, the College of Victoria and the personal sector — warned that under-reporting of COVID-19 circumstances makes it difficult for the general public to know the dangers.

UBC epidemiologist Sarah Otto, a member of the modelling group, stated it’s vital for folks to know that the an infection price is way larger than reported as a result of it’s going to affect their choices on defending themselves.

Utilizing blood testing survey knowledge from the COVID-19 Immunity Process Power and from Canadian Blood Providers, the modelling group estimated that circumstances in B.C. are being under-reported by as a lot as 100-fold.

Learn the total story right here.

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— Gordon Hoekstra

B.C. children will return to class beneath COVID cloud for third September since pandemic started

For the third straight fall, B.C. youngsters will head again to high school amid a world pandemic, though it’s anticipated to be nearer to “regular” this time round.

Whereas September 2020 launched “cohorts” and September 2021 started with a masks mandate, B.C.’s COVID-19 response has advanced, and protocols set by the Ministry of Training are anticipated to replicate that.

With two weeks remaining earlier than faculty begins, the ministry instructed Postmedia it’s going to share an replace subsequent week.

Previously, protocols have adopted  B.C. Centre for Illness Management tips, stated Clint Johnston, president of the B.C. Academics’ Federation. “We aren’t sure but what can be in place in September.”

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Learn the total story right here.

— Glenda Luymes

COVID deaths in B.C. high 4,000

B.C.’s dying toll from COVID-19 has surpassed the 4,000 mark.

On Thursday, the B.C. Centre for Illness Management reported 24 folks have died inside 30 days of a optimistic COVID-19 check from Aug. 7 to 13, bringing the provincial whole to 4,037 for the reason that pandemic started in early 2020.

Of those deaths, 3,002 had been counted earlier than the province switched to a weekly reporting system that counts all deaths that happen inside 30 days from a optimistic COVID check end result, whatever the foremost reason for dying.

“All-cause mortality is getting used as a result of reason for dying takes roughly eight weeks to be recorded,” stated the BCCDC in its weekly report.

It is going to conduct “retrospective evaluations of underlying causes of dying … to higher perceive true COVID-19 mortality.”

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The BCCDC stated the all-cause mortality rely offered in its weekly report is anticipated to extend as knowledge turns into extra full. The 28 deaths it reported final week for July 31 to Aug. 6 have risen to 40 as of this week’s report.

— Cheryl Chan


What are B.C.’s present public well being measures?

MASKS: Masks usually are not required in public indoor settings although particular person companies and occasion organizers can select to require them.Masks are additionally inspired however not required on board public transit and B.C. Ferries, although they’re nonetheless required in federally regulated journey areas reminiscent of trains, airports and airplanes, and in well being care settings.

GATHERINGS AND EVENTS: There are at present no restrictions on gatherings and occasions reminiscent of private gatherings, weddings, funerals, worship providers, train and health actions, and swimming swimming pools.There are additionally no restrictions or capability limits on eating places, pubs, bars and nightclubs; and no restrictions on sport actions.

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CARE HOMES: There are not any capability restrictions on guests to long-term care and seniors’ assisted dwelling services, nevertheless, guests should present proof of vaccination earlier than visiting.

Exemptions can be found for youngsters beneath the age of 12, these with a medical exemption, and guests attending for compassionate visits associated to end-of-life. Guests to seniors’ properties are additionally required to take a speedy antigen check earlier than visiting the ability or be examined on arrival. Exemptions to testing can be found for these attending for compassionate visits or end-of-life care.


How do I get vaccinated in B.C.?

Everybody who resides in B.C. and eligible for a vaccine can obtain one by following these steps:

• Get registered on-line at gov.bc.ca/getvaccinated to e book an appointment in your neighborhood.
• Or, for those who favor, you may get registered after which go to a drop-in clinic in your well being authority.
• The system will provide you with a warning when it’s time to go in your second dose.
• The identical system may even provide you with a warning when it’s time in your booster dose.

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The place can I get a COVID-19 check?

TESTING CENTRES: B.C.’s COVID-19 check assortment centres are at present solely testing these with signs who’re hospitalized, pregnant, thought of excessive threat or dwell/work with those that are excessive threat. You could find a testing centre utilizing the B.C. Centre for Illness Management’s testing centre map.

When you’ve got gentle signs, you do not want a check and will keep residence till your fever is gone. These with out signs don’t want a check.

TAKE-HOME RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS: Eligible British Columbians over the age of 18 with a private well being quantity can go to a pharmacy to obtain a free take-home check package containing 5 COVID-19 speedy antigen assessments.


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