The number of new weekly COVID-19 cases in New Westminster continues to crater during the most-recent reporting period, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control.
New West recorded just 34 cases between May 23 to 29 – way down from the 61 cases between May 16 and 22, the 75 cases from May 9 to 15, the 85 cases from May 2 to 9, and the 104 cases from April 25 to May 1, which is down from the 122 cases between April 18 and 24, and the 126 cases from April 11 to 17 and below the 151 new coronavirus cases from April 4 to 10.
New West saw 103 cases from March 28 to April 3.
New Westminster’s COVID case counts and testing positivity rates have the city sitting in the middle of the pack for the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley region.
B.C.'s recent success in limiting the spread and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be continuing, according to data released June 2.
The success in fighting the pandemic, however, does not mean that the province plans to accelerate its plan to reopen the B.C. economy, or allow travel across the province. Travel restrictions across the province are to be in place until June 15 at the earliest, Health Minister Adrian Dix told a press gallery scrum.
"With B.C.'s Restart plan progressing, this is a time of transition for all of us," he and provincial health officer Bonnie Henry said in a joint statement. "We are slowly and cautiously moving forward through Step 1, and in the weeks ahead, activities that have been on hold will resume once again."
While the number of new COVID-19 cases rose by 10, compared with yesterday, to 194, that number is far below the average number of daily infections as recently as a week ago. The province provided 6,862 COVID-19 tests in the past day, making the positive-test rate 2.8% – far lower than the 7% to 9% positive-test rate that has been the norm in recent weeks.
The number of active infections across the province fell for the 28th consecutive time, to 2,662 – the lowest total since October.
- With files from Glen Korstrom, Glacier Media
