coronavirus was announced in late January. Since then, the province has had around 2,800 cases of the disease.But B.C.’s infection rate, at 55 per 100,000 people, pales in comparison to Ontario, which has had 226 cases per 100,000, or Quebec’s which sits at 641.So what’s led to B.C.’s relative success so far during the pandemic?
Experts say it’s likely due to a few things.Something as simple as the timing of March Break may also have had something to do with how many cases a province saw, said David Buckeridge, a professor at the McGill University School of Population and Global Health.