The number of new weekly COVID-19 cases in New Westminster dropped by just four in the last reporting period.
BCCDC data show New Westminster had a total of 122 cases between April 18 and 24, down from the 126 cases from April 11 to 17 and below the 151 new coronavirus cases from April 4 to 10.
That’s still well above the previous record of 103 cases from March 28 to April 3.
The number is well above the 85 cases between Jan. 24 and 30. New West had 95 cases from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5, 2020.
New West saw 78 cases from March 21 to 27 – up from the 63 cases between March 14 and 20, the 73 cases from March 7 to 13, the 67 new cases between Feb. 28 and March 6, and the 71 new coronavirus cases between Feb. 21 and 27 – the same number as Feb.14 and 20.
B.C. on April 28 set records for the most COVID-19 patients in hospitals, and in intensive care units (ICU), according to new provincial data.
The number of those hospitalized rose by a net total of 15 people, to 515, while the number of ICU patients rose by seven overnight, to 171. Five people are listed as having died from the disease in the past 24 hours, and it was not clear if they all had been in hospitals.
The new deaths raise the province's death toll from the disease to 1,576.
Of the 127,889 people known to have contracted COVID-19 in B.C. since the first case was detected in January, 2020, more than 92.3%, or 118,057 individuals are deemed by the province to have recovered.
- With additional reporting by Glen Korstrom, Glacier Media
