There have been 60 new cases of COVID-19 in the North Shore Coast Garibaldi health region in the past week, bringing the total number of cases in the local health area since the beginning of the pandemic to 966.
That’s almost double the local case count at the beginning of September.
Numbers of new cases have been relatively steady in the North Shore health area in recent weeks, however, with the number of new cases reported every two weeks hovering around 100.
The latest weekly summary from B.C.’s Centre for Disease Control came out the same day B.C. announced a record daily number of 425 new coronavirus cases, including 125 cases in Vancouver Coastal Health and 268 in the Fraser Health Region.
Province-wide, there are currently 97 people in hospital with COVID-19, 24 of them in intensive care. The vast majority of those people are in the Lower Mainland.
On Thursday, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s chief medical officer, urged people to be cautious both with gatherings of people who are not part of their own households and with indoor group activities, ranging from exercise classes to children’s dance activities.
She urged those whose social circle includes someone who has COVID-19, who live with older people or who work in health care or other essential services to be especially cautious and curtail those types of activities.
