New government data says new COVID-19 infections dropped in Burnaby during the latest reporting period.
According to the BC Centre for Disease Control's (BCCDC) Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 by Local Health Area of Case Residence, Burnaby saw 47 cases from July 10 to 16.
The city recorded 62 infections from July 3 to 9.
Provincially, the number of serious COVID-19 infections and deaths in B.C. has declined slightly from a week ago.
Of the 406 COVID-19 patients in B.C. hospitals, 30 are in intensive care units (ICUs). That compares with 426 of those patients in hospitals, including 34 in ICUs one week ago.
Another 21 people are listed as having died while infected with COVID-19 in B.C. in the week up to July 16, a decline of one person from the total of 22 such deaths listed in the week that ended July 9.
The death total includes anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days and then died. That calculation may include people who tested positive and then died in car accidents.
Government data shows that 3,855 people have now died while infected with COVID-19 in B.C. That is up by 32 from one week ago despite only 21 new deaths being recorded.
The BCCDC detected 1,044 new COVID-19 infections in the week that ended July 16. That is up by 71 from the 973 new cases reported one week earlier, and it raises the number of known COVID-19 infections in B.C. to 377,372 since the first case was detected in late January 2020.
The 11,194 COVID-19 tests conducted in B.C. in the week ending July 16 was down by 1,108 from one week earlier. Given that there were 1,044 known new cases, the positive-test rate for the week was 9.32 per cent, up from 7.9 per cent one week earlier. The 9.32-per-cent positive-test rate is by far the highest that it has been since the province started releasing weekly data updates in early April.
- with files from Glen Korstrom, Business In Vancouver
