Burnaby’s new COVID-19 cases dropped in the past week compared to the previous week as the city continues on a roller coaster.
The latest data from the BC Centre for Disease Control for the period of Jan. 24 to 30 shows Burnaby had 124 new coronavirus cases.
That’s down from Jan. 17 to 23, when Burnaby had 155 new coronavirus cases. By comparison, the Tri-Cities had 111 cases and Richmond had 44 cases last week, although Burnaby has a larger population.
Last week’s cases are up from Jan. 10 to 16, in which there were 111 new coronavirus cases in Burnaby. (The case data does not include how many Burnaby residents died during this period.)
There were 152 new cases from Jan. 3-9. There were 169 cases from Dec. 27-Jan. 3 – which was a large drop from Dec. 20 to 26, when there were 214 new cases in Burnaby – a drop from the 287 new cases from Dec. 13-19 and 341 cases from Dec. 6-12 – the worst week for the city.
An outbreak remains at Burnaby Hospital, with nine new cases and an entire medical unit closed to new admissions. A previous hospital outbreak was declared over earlier this week, but a new outbreak was announced on Wednesday.
While cases dropped as December went on, the month was also Burnaby’s worst with 1,139 new cases, compared with the 1,081 new cases during November. Burnaby had just 287 new cases in all of October and 238 cases in September.
According to the BCCDC, Burnaby had 3,077 COVID-19 cases between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020.
