COVID-19 cases could see record pressure on B.C.’s hospitals as new variants of concern take hold in the community.On Friday, B.C.
reported 908 new cases of the virus, the second highest daily total yet, and the highest since Nov. 27.It also recorded more troubling growth in COVID-19 variants of concern, which have have been growing as a proportion of active cases in the province since the start of March.
COVID-19 surging in B.C., as province reports 800 new cases in a day “Crunching the numbers, we’re in a pretty bad state,” Sally Otto, a University of British Columbia mathematical biologist who has done COVID-19 modelling, told Global News.“With a doubling of the (B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the U.K.) every seven to 10 days, we’re.