Slight uptick in COVID case reports from weekly data review from BC CDC

BC CDC Local Health Data on COVID for April 28th

 

While reports of increased absences from work owing to COVID made for some of the news of the week, the data review from the BC CDC released on Thursday does not seem to indicate any widespread occurrences of COVID that have been reported.

Of the COVID cases of note, most  were limited to the larger population centres of the Northwest for the most recent reporting period, with four of the 12 regions of the Northwest recording no cases in the last seven days. 

This week's data  for the period of April 17-23 indicated that those communities with cases to report in the Northwest had seen a slight uptick in their results.

The results for Prince Rupert at 7 provided for an increase of 2 cases from the week prior, a similar increase as that found in Terrace.

Smithers saw the largest increase in the region jumping from 3 cases last week to 9 cases reported in this period.

The northwest count is significantly lower than that of Northern British Columbia's largest community, with Prince George recording a case count of 54 in the period.

The full review across the region for the week of April 17 - April 23  from the BC CDC looks as follows:

Terrace -- 13 cases
Smithers -- 9 cases

Prince Rupert -- 7 cases

Kitimat --  6 cases

Nechako -- 3 cases

Haida Gwaii --  3 cases

Nisga'a Region -- 3 cases

Upper Skeena --  1 case

Burns Lake --  0 cases

Snow Country-Stikine-Telegraph Creek --  0 cases

Central Coast --  0 cases

Bella Coola Valley -- 0 cases

The Provincial Data Review looks as follows:

2,276 New Cases, with 570 hospitalized, 47 in Critical Care. 42 new deaths from COVID were reported for a provincial total of 3,147 to date.

There have been 363,302 cases of COVID recorded in the province since the arrival of the pandemic

As of April 28th the Province had administered 11,605,045 doses of COVID Vaccine in first, second or booster shots, with a fourth booster program for specific groups to soon get underway.

Thursday's provincial report lists  118 new cases of COVID for the Northern Health region for the reporting week. That makes for a total of 29,815 cases recorded since the start of the pandemic.

For the Northern Health Region in total as of Thursday, 24 patients are listed as in hospital, with  5 noted as in Critical Care, the Northern Health region recorded one new death this week, the Northern Health total of deaths attributed to COVID is 335 since the start of the pandemic.

The  breakdown of hospitalizations by community in the Northern Health region is not included in the data release information.

COVID review for April 28
British Columbia wide 

COVID review for April 28
Northern Health Region 

The larger BC CDC Data release is available here.

Past information statements on COVID and other notes on the Northwest response can be reviewed from our archive page.