Whistler has become one of B.C.’s COVID-19 hotspots.Health officials revealed on Friday that the community had recorded 547 known cases of the virus between Jan.
1 and Feb. 2 — a figure Health Minister Adrian Dix described as “too many.”It’s nearly double the 288 cases that Vancouver Coastal Health reported in Whistler between Jan.
1 and Jan. 26. More people in Whistler have contracted COVID-19 in January than in all of 2020 Just 271 cases were confirmed in the community in all of 2020.“The majority of the cases in Whistler continue to be identified in young people in their 20s and 30s who live, work and socialize together,” Dix said.“Almost all of the recent cases are associated with transmission occurring within households and social.