Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “We have been reaching another exciting milestone, in our immunization here in BC. At some time today, the two millionth dose will have been given to people in British Columbia,” said provincial health officer Bonnie Henry, yesterday afternoon.
That’s nearly half of the provinces 4.3 million eligible residents.
While numbers are falling across British Columbia and Vancouver Island, they may temporarily be higher in Greater Campbell River.
The difficulty in making that assessment, is that the data released last Wednesday evening was already a week old.
There were 11 cases in Greater Campbell River Local Health Area during the epi-week ending on May 1st. That is almost a three fold increase over the previous epi-week, but not really a concern. This number was fluctuating throughout April.
There were 20 active cases in North Vancouver Island as of Thursday, May 6th and the numbers have been steadily going down for the past four weeks. There were 40 on Thursday April 16th.
The Vancouver Island wide statistics have been falling for an even longer time. There were 508 active cases on Thursday, April 9th, and 187 yesterday.
77% of the cases on Vancouver Island were variants of concern
The 8 schools currently listed on Island Health’s School exposure page are all in Victoria.
In yesterday’s update, Bonnie Henry said, “It is incredibly encouraging to see our immunizations going up and our rates of transmission ever so slowly bending down. It’s also so important that we started to see the impact of the measures we have been taking together in BC, meaning that hospitalizations and ICU admissions are also decreasing. This is a huge relief to many of us, to those of our colleagues who are working so diligently every day.”
