Burnaby’s new COVID-19 cases last week stayed nearly even with the previous week.
The latest data from the BC Centre for Disease Control for the period of Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 show Burnaby had 121 new coronavirus cases - from Jan. 24 to 30 Burnaby had 124 new coronavirus cases.
Those two weeks are both down from Jan. 17 to 23, when Burnaby had 155 new coronavirus cases. By comparison, the Tri-Cities had 109 cases and Richmond had 45 cases last week, although Burnaby has a larger population.
An outbreak remains at Burnaby Hospital, with at least nine new cases and an entire medical unit closed to new admissions.
Three cases of COVID-19 have now been reported in workers at the Real Canadian Superstore in Burnaby’s biggest mall, Metropolis at Metrotown.
The last shift for two of the workers was on Jan. 31, while the worker in the newest case last worked on Feb. 9. This follows two workers at the Wholesale Club, 5335 Kingsway, in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood, testing positive for coronavirus. Sobeys, Inc, has reported on its case-tracker website that a worker at the Safeway at 4440 Hastings St. in the Burnaby Heights neighbourhood tested positive for coronavirus. The worker’s last shift at the Burnaby store was on Feb. 6, said the company.
Last week’s cases are up from Jan. 10 to 16, in which there were 111 new coronavirus cases in Burnaby. (The case data does not include how many Burnaby residents died during this period.)
There were 152 new cases from Jan. 3-9. There were 169 cases from Dec. 27-Jan. 3 – which was a large drop from Dec. 20 to 26, when there were 214 new cases in Burnaby – a drop from the 287 new cases from Dec. 13-19 and 341 cases from Dec. 6-12 – the worst week for the city.
While cases dropped as December went on, the month was also Burnaby’s worst with 1,139 new cases, compared with the 1,081 new cases during November. Burnaby had just 287 new cases in all of October and 238 cases in September.
According to the BCCDC, Burnaby had 3,077 COVID-19 cases between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020.
