New COVID-19 cases in Burnaby rose during the latest reporting period but still remain low overall.
According to the BC Centre for Disease Control's (BCCDC) Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 by Local Health Area of Case Residence, Burnaby saw 36 new infections from June 5 to 11, 2022.
The city saw 30 cases between May 29 to June 4.
Numbers, as usual, do not reflect the total number of actual COVID cases in the city. Official public case counts are considered to be a vast undercount of COVID-19 cases in B.C., since the majority of people have not been eligible for testing since the beginning of 2022, when case counts shot up dramatically in the face of the original Omicron wave.
Provincewide, hospitalization data continues to show signs of optimism.
New data shows the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. fell for the fifth consecutive week, to 276 – the fewest since April 1.
Of those, 19 people were sick enough to need treatment in intensive care units (ICUs), which is also the fifth consecutive weekly decline. The last time there were this few COVID-19 patients in B.C. ICUs was on Aug. 3, more than 10 months ago, when there were also 19. The last time that this number was lower was on July 30, when there were 16 people sick enough to be in those wards.
(Data for hospitalizations reflects the period up until June 15.)
The one number that isn't falling, however, is the death count: Another 50 deaths were reported in the week ending June 11, up seven from the week before. (The total includes anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days and then died.)
- with files from Julie MacLellan, New West Record and Glen Korstrom, Business In Vancouver
