COVID-19 cases in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.Dr. Richard Stanwick, chief medical health officer for the Island Health Region, said Thursday that a new outbreak at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital’s transitional care unit was likely transmitted to the facility by someone who’d been in Metro Vancouver.
B.C. on track to see 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day if changes not made: Modelling numbers Five health-care workers have since tested positive at the facility.“If you can avoid travelling to the Lower Mainland, please do so — it’s one of these situations where you are going to a place where COVID is circulating at much higher levels than the island, and what you’re really doing is putting yourself at an increased risk,”.