COVID-19 cases on the decline in Interior, B.C.

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are dropping in the Interior and across B.C.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) weekly report stated there were 281 cases of COVID-19 in the Interior and 1,358 in all of B.C. between May 15 and 21.

The cases were down from the 371 in the Interior and 1,644 across the province the previous week.

The Interior’s cases in the new report were the third-highest of the health authority after Fraser Health’s 465 and Vancouver Coastal Health’s 295 cases.

The report showed that during the week in question there were 43 people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in the Interior and 282 in B.C.

Those figures mark declines from the 76 hospitalizations in the Interior and 388 in B.C. the week before.

Fraser Health had the most hospitalizations at 129 over the course of the week, followed by Vancouver Coastal Health at 55, then Interior Health.

COVID-19 deaths dropped by about half in the new report, which showed eight deaths in the Interior and 42 in the province.

Those figures are down from the 14 in the Interior and 86 deaths in all of B.C. the week before.

The Interior had the third-highest death count after Fraser Health’s 14 and Vancouver Coastal’s 13.

To date, there have been 370,559 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in B.C., 66,085 of which were recorded in the Interior.

There have also been 3,002 British Columbians who have died due to COVID-19, 367 of whom were in the Interior.

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