Friday, September 16, 2022

BC CDC Review for week shows slight uptick of case reports, with two largest population areas topping the list for Northwest BC

BC CDC Community Covid Case data for week
of September 4-10

The Northwest continues  to feature single digit reports on COVID cases, with this week showing a few incremental increases for a few an increasing number of communities from the report one week ago.

This week's report from the BC CDC for the period of September 4-10  has Five of the reporting areas recording no cases for the period of review.

Those include  Upper Skeena, Snow Country-Stikine-Telegraph Creek, Nisga'a, Central Coast and Bella Coola Valley

However, a number of the larger population centres of the Northwest have seen some slight increases from the last report was released.

Prince George tops the reports for the North for the review period at 22.

The full review across the region for the week of September 4-10  from the BC CDC looks as follows:

Terrace --  5 cases
Prince Rupert -- 5 case
Kitimat -- 2 cases
Burns Lake --   2 cases
Haida Gwaii --  1 case
Smithers -- 1 case
Nechako --  1 cases
Bella Coola Valley -- 0 cases
Nisga'a Region --  0 cases
Snow Country-Stikine-Telegraph Creek -- 0 cases
Central Coast --   0 cases
Upper Skeena --  0 cases


The Provincial Data Review shows much the same data as it has for the majority of the summer. 

574 New Cases , with 314 hospitalized, 23 in Critical Care  and 16 new deaths from COVID reported.

The number or critical care and those who have passed away brings similar totals as that from last week's review.

The total number of deaths in BC since the start of the coronavirus is 4,216 to date.

There have been 383,628  cases of COVID recorded in the province since the arrival of the pandemic

As of September 1st the Province had distributed 13,469,734 first, second or booster shots of the COVID Vaccine, with a fourth booster program now beginning to roll out..

Thursday's provincial report lists  45 new cases of COVID for the Northern Health region for the reporting week, an increase of eight from last weeks report.

That makes for a total of 30,955 cases recorded since the start of the pandemic.

For the Northern Health Region, 26 patients are listed as in hospital, with   0 noted as in Critical Care, the Northern Health region recorded 0 deaths in this last week.

The Northern Health total of deaths attributed to COVID is listed as 378 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 September 15
British Columbia results

COVID review for September 15
Northern Health Region results


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






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