While COVID-19 cases continue to rapidly rise across B.C., one Burnaby quadrant is being hit hard.
According to the latest COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard update, Burnaby Northwest recorded a 4% positivity rate from Aug. 3 to 9, 2021 and now holds a case rate of seven.
Burnaby Southwest, Southeast and Northeast all came in at 1% during the same reporting period.
The data is released by the BC Centre for Disease Control.
With the uptick in infections, immunizations are also slowing down which has prompted a stronger push from health officials for residents to get vaccinated.
With 82.1% of the province's eligible population having had at least one jab of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 70.6% of that population being fully vaccinated, most people eager to get vaccinated have already done so.
This has prompted a drop in the number of people visiting vaccination centres a day after Health Minister Adrian Dix announced that appointments at those centres are no longer necessary.
There were only 20,006 vaccine doses that went into British Columbians' arms in the past 24 hours. There has not been that few doses provided in a single day since April 6, when the government said 18,466 doses were administered. April 6 was an anomaly at the time, however, as all other days in that calendar week had more than 34,000 doses provided.
The struggle to get people who have been stragglers at getting vaccinated into clinics comes as the number of individuals with active COVID-19 infections keeps jumping new months-high levels.
Burnaby's latest regional numbers for Aug. 3 to 9, 2021, are as follows. Case rates are new cases per 100,000 people by local health area and community health service area.
BURNABY NORTHWEST
- Case rate: 7
- Positivity rate: 4%
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 88%
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 77%
BURNABY NORTHEAST
- Case rate: 1
- Positivity rate: 1%
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 86%
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 75%
BURNABY SOUTHWEST
- Case rate: 3
- Positivity rate: 1%
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 85%
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 73%
BURNABY SOUTHEAST
- Case rate: 2
- Positivity rate: 1%
- Vaccination coverage (first dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 84%
- Vaccination coverage (second dose) of those 12 years of age and older: 73%
- With files from Glen Korstrom, Business In Vancouver
