A slight bend of a curve offers hope that Third Wave may be waning, as vaccine program continues to ramp ups

Tuesday's statement on COVID from the BC Health Ministry and Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry provided for another decline in daily totals of the coronavirus, with just 515 cases of coronavirus reported today, 300 of them centred in the provinces current hot spot of Fraser Health.

The data review and notes on the province's vaccination program made for the bulk of the items of interest for the day.

“Today, we are reporting 515 new cases, including 10 epi-linked cases, for a total of 136,623 cases in British Columbia. 

There are 6,020 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. A further 128,149 people who tested positive have recovered. 

Of the active cases, 426 individuals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 141 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people with COVID-19 are recovering at home in self-isolation. 

There have been two new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,624 deaths in British Columbia. Our condolences are with the family, friends and caregivers of the people who have died as a result of COVID-19"

Across the province, the Regional Health Authorities outlined the following totals for the day: 116 new cases of COVID-19 in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 300 new cases in the Fraser Health region, 20 in the Island Health region and, 65 in the Interior Health region.

The numbers declined across Northern BC with just 12 cases of COVID reported today by Northern Health region, the total to date across the Northern Health region is 7,369 cases since January of 2020.

Towards the province's vaccination program, the results for Tuesday were as follows: “2,219,856 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in B.C., 110,516 of which are second doses.

The importance of the vaccination program also made for some of the closing notes for today's report.

“The number of people protected with a COVID-19 vaccine is going up every day, and the number of people requiring care in hospital is trending down. This is what we want to see and what we want to keep going. 

Like it has been since the start of the pandemic, small efforts make a big difference: taking two minutes to register, getting vaccinated when it is your turn, staying small and staying local. Together, we’ll get through this storm.”

The full statement for  Tuesday can be viewed here. 

BC CDC data for British Columbia for May 11, 2021

BC CDC data for Northern Health Region for May 11 2021

The BC Centre for Disease control has some valuable Coronavirus notes related to COVID-19 you can explore that information here.

You can learn more about the outbreak from both the Province and the Federal government from the links below:

Federal Government site

British Columbia Government site

The World Health Organization website also offers up the latest advisories on the global situation.

More from  Northern Health can be reviewed here 

You can review our archive of past statements and local information here.   

Local governments and organizations have also provided for increased awareness of COVID-19 issues, those past advisories  can be reviewed here.

For notes from across Canada and British Columbia we have been archiving the latest items through our political portal Darcy McGee

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