Burnaby's four quadrants are seeing little-to-no movement in its COVID-19 case, positivity rates and vaccination percentage.
According to the provincial COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast Burnaby's numbers barely changed from Oct. 15 to 19, 2021.
As hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise across the province, health officials announced on Tuesday (Oct. 26) that booster shots for COVID-19 immunizations will be available to all British Columbians.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Henry announced yesterday (Oct. 26) the new booster-shot campaign will take a phased approach for those 12 and older, beginning this month and extending through to May 2022.
These third doses will be made available to British Columbians who already received their second doses at least six to eight months prior.
“The protection we get from these vaccines wanes a little over time but it doesn’t fall off a cliff,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during a Tuesday briefing.
“We got good, strong immunity for most people but some who got their doses early … those are the people at higher risk of having decreased protection by now.”
The timing will depend on recipients’ ages and risk levels, while vaccines will also be made available concurrently for children five to 11, pending approval from Health Canada.
Higher-risk populations are considered to be those ages 70 years and older, as well as Indigenous populations in rural locations, residents in long-term-care and assisted-living, the immunosuppressed and health-care workers who received their initial two doses at a shorter interval than the general population.
Some of these groups began receiving boosters last month and the new campaign will focus on others in those groups through to December.
The government estimates it will begin administering boosters in January to those considered clinically extremely vulnerable (but not immunosuppressed), health-care workers in long-term-care and assisted-living, health-care workers in the community and then the remaining general population 12 and older.
Case rates are new cases per 100,000 people by local health area and community health service area.
BURNABY NORTHWEST
- Case rate: 5 (-1)
- Positivity rate: 2% (+/-0)
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 94% (+/-0)
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 91% (+2)
BURNABY NORTHEAST
- Case rate: 6 (-1)
- Positivity rate: 3% (+/-0)
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 93% (+1)
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 89% (+1)
BURNABY SOUTHWEST
- Case rate: 6 (+1)
- Positivity rate: 1% (+/-0)
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 92% (+1)
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 88% (+2)
BURNABY SOUTHEAST
- Case rate: 7 (+/-0)
- Positivity rate: 4% (+2)
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 91% (+1)
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 86% (+1)
- With files from Tyler Orton, Business In Vancouver
