One case report from last week brings total COVID-19 case counts to 15 for Prince Rupert since January

 

The weekly release of Local Health Data related to COVID-19 one additional entry for the Prince Rupert area for the week of December 20-26 , which increases the Prince Rupert total case level to 15 reported cases since the start of the pandemic in January.

The BC Centre for Disease control only recently began sharing the data on a weekly basis culled from Local Health Authority reports.

Across the Northwest, the cases reported from December 20 to 26 were as follows.

For the week the largest case reports were found in the Burns Lake and Terrace areas.

Terrace -- 31
Burns Lake -- 18
Smithers -- 12
Nechako -- 6
Upper Skeena -- 4
Kitimat -- 0
Nisga'a Valley -- 0

The Snow Country-Stikine-Telegraph Creek area lists one case of COVID from the week.

The Bella Coola Valley and Haida Gwaii had no new case counts to report for the reporting period.

The most recent monthly update from the BC CDC can be reviewed here.

Other charts and information from the BC CDC can be explored here.

You can review the latest information from the Public Health Officer Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix here.