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During the beginning of the pandemic, March 16th, all elective surgeries were cancelled by the Ministry of Health, to free up space for potential pandemic response. This reduced surgeries to about 1,200 per week. Since May 15th elective surgeries have resumed, back-up to about 6,000 per week. The proportion of non-scheduled emergencies surgeries has remained constant at about 1,200.
Since entering phase three of re-opening, there has been an increase of COVID related hospitalizations, province-wide, from six people to 16 people, and ICU beds from two people to six people. Population 5.1 million.