COVID-19: Five things to watch for in B.C.

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The rollout of treatments, wastewater data and an announcement on booster shots on Tuesday are key this week

This comes as the World Health Organization confirmed the more transmissible BA. 2 Omicron subvariant has now taken over around the world, and as Quebec and Ontario announce they are in a sixth wave of the pandemic.As the pandemic moves toward an endemic state — though there has been less talk of that over the past few weeks — treatments will become more important.They are Xevudy and Paxlovid .

As it stands, 57.6 per cent of British Columbian adults have received three doses of vaccine. That’s two shots as part of the first round of vaccination, and then a third “booster” shot.Last Thursday, Health Minister Adrian Dix suggested that on Tuesday he would make an announcement about the rollout of a fourth dose.Article content

The government is making available hundreds of thousands of the less accurate rapid test kits, however, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is no longer asking people who test positive to register their results.Article content4 — KEEP AN EYE ON WASTEWATER DATA The release of more of this data over the next few weeks will provide an insight into pandemic in Metro Vancouver.At the end of the day, the government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. has been about keeping people out of hospital and not overloading an already stretched medical system.Article content

 

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