The good news? COVID-19 case counts in Burnaby aren't getting appreciably worse. The bad news? They're not getting better, either.
The city saw 151 new cases of coronavirus in the week of Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, according to the latest data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. That's on par with the last couple of weeks, when we saw 147 and 144 cases.
The COVID-19 picture varies depending which quadrant of the city you're living in.
Southwest Burnaby is faring the worst. At this point, it has the highest test positivity rates, at 7% for all publicly funded tests, and the highest daily case rate, at 13 per 100,000 people.
Here's the breakdown:
SOUTHEAST
Test positivity: 5%
Daily case rate: 8 per 100,000
NORTHEAST
Test positivity: 4%
Daily case rate: 7 per 100,000
SOUTHWEST
Test positivity: 7%
Daily case rate: 13 per 100,000
NORTHWEST
Test positivity: 4%
Daily case rate: 9 per 100,000
To see which quadrant of the city your neighbourhood falls into, check out this local health area map from the Ministry of Health.
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