There were eight new cases of COVID-19 in the Golden area during the week of Jan. 17-23.
It’s a sharp increased from the one new case the week before and puts Golden into the 10.1 – 15 cases per 100,000 population rate.
Golden now has more infections per capita than Revelstoke, which only has two new cases in the past week, compared to 16 the week before. Golden now has the third most new cases in the Kootenays, behind only Cranbrook with nine and Fernie with 44 new cases in the last week alone.
It is still a decrease for Golden from the week following Christmas.
Numbers can be found on the BC Centre for Disease Control website under BC COVID-19 data. Also available are graphs from the BCCDC Comparisons App showing how each health authority is doing in terms of positive test rates by month.
Across BC, the curve has plateaued, with between 400 to 500 new cases a day province wide, after weeks of seeing a slow but steady decline in cases.
This is about the same numbers that B.C. was experiencing back in November which tipped the second wave, with the Physicians of Golden stating in an update that “our gains so far have been precarious”.
The next two weeks could bend the curve back down, according to the physicians, if we can control current outbreaks and keep from starting anymore.
Across Canada Ontario has extended the state of emergency for another 2 weeks, students returning to school will be required to mask in the classroom. Quebec has delayed vaccinations in private seniors homes due to the manufacturing shortfalls. Alberta has reported a case of the UK variant that suggests it is circulating in the community.
