COVID-19 in the province’s communities.As of Thursday, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control will now report case data by local health area, which in some cases breaks the information down by city, or even portions of cities, on a weekly basis.
Coronavirus: B.C. health officials aren’t saying which communities have cases. Here’s why That data was previously only reported monthly.Under the new reporting format, COVID-19 hot spots become immediately visible.For the week of Nov.
29 to Dec. 5 — the most recent reporting period — Delta, Surrey, Abbotsford, the Central Okanagan, Kettle Valley, Nechako and Nisga’a regions immediately stand out as having more than 20 cases per 100,000 residents.