The COVID-19 caseload for the Howe Sound health region continues to drop, with just two new lab-confirmed cases last week, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control.
Including Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish, Lions Bay and parts of the Southern Stl’atl’mx Nation, the health delivery area’s two new cases were tallied between June 6 and 12. That’s down from three cases the week prior, and five cases for each of the two weeks before that.
It’s a far cry from just a few months ago when Whistler had one of the highest COVID infection rates per capita in the province, leading to a mass vaccination campaign of eligible Whistler workers in late March and April.
The decline aligns with the wider provincial trend, which has seen case numbers drop steadily as vaccination rates have climbed.
On that front, Whistler is leading the way, with 91.5 per cent of locals aged 12 and up having received at least one dose of vaccine as of June 10, the highest immunization rate of any B.C. community, VCH has confirmed.
Cumulatively, the Howe Sound health region recorded 2,885 cases of coronavirus between Jan. 1, 2020 and May 31 of this year. That would give it a transmission rate of more than 4,000 per 100,000 population, one of about a dozen local health areas in the province to hit that mark over the course of the pandemic.
So far, 76.5 per cent of all adults in BC and 74.8 per cent of those 12 and older have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccines. In total, 4,231,871 doses of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines have been administerd in B.C., 768,008 of which were second doses.
Yesterday, B.C. recorded 120 new cases of the virus, for a cumulative total of 146,794 cases in the province, of which, 143, 579 have recovered. There are currently 1,452 active cases in B.C.
