The trend continues.
The second dose percentage of eligible Burnaby children aged 5-11 is currently at 56 as of June 9, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control's (BCCDC) vaccine coverage progress by LHA
The latest data equates to a one per cent increase from May 29.
Percentages across Fraser Health as of June 9, 2022, are as follows:
- Tri-Cities - 53 per cent
- Surrey - 39 per cent
- South Surrey/White Rock - 49 per cent
- New Westminster - 57 per cent
- Mission - 25 per cent
- Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows - 43 per cent
- Langley - 41 per cent
- Hope - 21 per cent
- Delta - 51 per cent
- Chilliwack - 28 per cent
- Burnaby - 56 per cent
- Agassiz/Harrison - 23 per cent
- Abbotsford - 27 per cent
New infections drop in Burnaby during latest reporting period
The number of COVID-19 cases in Burnaby has plunged, with the latest data showing fewer than half the cases reported the week before.
Between May 29 and June 4, Burnaby saw 30 new cases of COVID-19, according to the latest data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. That's a sharp drop from 62 cases the previous week and 73 the week before that.
Official public case counts don't reflect the actual number of COVID-19 cases in B.C., since the vast 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.
BCCDC data about COVID-19 variants shows that Omicron BA.2 and its sub-variants, BA.2.12 and BA.2.3, continue to make up the vast majority of COVID cases in British Columbia.
Provincewide, hospitalization data provides signs of optimism.
The BCCDC said 28 people in B.C. were sick enough to be in the province's hospital intensive care units (ICUs) as of yesterday (June 8). The last time there were so few COVID-19 patients in ICUs was on Aug.10, almost 10 months ago. Back then, the province had 23 such patients.
In all hospital wards combined, there were 325 COVID-19 patients in B.C. hospitals as of yesterday. That number has declined in each of the past four weekly data reports and reflects the lowest total since April 7, nine weeks ago.
Test positivity rates in Burnaby have also fallen considerably since last week.
The latest positivity rates (May 29 to June 4) stood at 6% for the city's northeast quadrant, 9% for the southeast, 10% for the northwest and 13% for the southwest. Those numbers are down from 25%, 10%, 22% and 17%, respectively, in the previous week.
- with files from Julie MacLellan, New West Record
