Vernon’s COVID-19 cases jump in latest update

Sep 29, 2022 | 4:40 PM

Greater Vernon saw a spike in COVID-19 cases on a weekly basis.

The weekly report from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) confirmed 29 new cases within the Vernon health area between Sept. 18 and 24.

That figure marks a significant increase over the previous week, when there were 10 confirmed cases in the area.

The 29 cases is the highest on record since the week of May 15 to 21, when 32 cases were confirmed in Greater Vernon.

The local cases were part of 143 confirmed within Interior Health and 635 in all of B.C.

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The BCCDC data shows regional cases were up on a weekly basis while the provincial total remained fairly flat, as the Interior had 125 cases and all of B.C. had 636 in the previous week’s report.

Though case numbers were up, overall hospital admissions and deaths linked to COVID-19 declined.

B.C., as a whole, had 150 COVID positive hospital admissions and 16 deaths linked to the virus in the latest week. Those were down from the 203 hospitalizations and 31 deaths the previous week.

There was a slight rise in COVID-19 intensive care admissions in B.C. as 30 were recorded in the most recent week, up from 29 the week before.

The Interior did see an increase in hospital admissions and ICU patients at 26 and five, up from 24 and three the previous week.

However, there were four deaths linked to COVID-19 in the Interior in the latest week, down from 11 the week prior.

To date, there have been 384,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in all of B.C. Of those cases, 68,544 were within the Interior.

A total of 4,283 British Columbians have now died due to COVID-19, with 640 of those deaths coming from the Interior.

The BCCDC did not provide specific over case totals, hospitalization or death figures for individual health areas such as Greater Vernon.

by Liam Verster

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