Burnaby saw a small increase of new COVID-19 cases during the latest reporting period, health officials say.
The BC Centre for Disease Control's (BCCDC) Graphic Distribution of COVID-19 by Local Health Area of Case Residence says Burnaby saw 28 cases from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3.
The city recorded 23 from Aug. 21 to 27.
Provincially, 22 people believed to have died of COVID-19 during the week up to Sept. 3 is the lowest such count since the week ended July 16, seven weeks earlier, according to new government data.
Data for new COVID-19 deaths includes anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days and then died – a calculation that could include people who tested positive and then died in car accidents.
Despite the province counting 22 new COVID-19 deaths, it raised its figure for the total number of people believed to have died from the disease in B.C. by 38, to 4,183.
Higher additions to the overall COVID-19 death toll in the province than newly counted COVID-19 deaths has happened consistently for months, and it is the opposite of what Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in April said would happen when the province shifted to reporting data on a weekly basis.
B.C. now has 324 people in hospitals with COVID-19, including people who tested positive for the virus while in hospital for something else. Of those, 22 have serious enough bouts of disease to be in intensive care units (ICUs).
The government said today that 617 new infections were detected in the week ended Sept. 3 – down by 34 from the 651 known new infections in the week ended Aug. 27. Given that there were said to be 14,485 official tests, that works out to a 4.26-per-cent positive-test rate.
- with files from Glen Korstrom, Business In Vancouver
