The number of new cases of COVID-19 continues to stay low in the Cariboo.
According to the BC Centre for Disease Control, there was just one case each in the Cariboo/Chilcotin, Quesnel, and 100 Mile House local health regions between March 28th and April 3rd for a total of 3 cases.
This is a decrease from the previous week when 5 new cases were reported in the Cariboo. Between March 21st and 27th, there were 2 cases in the 100 Mile House and Quesnel regions, and 1 in the Cariboo/Chilcotin region.
VANCOUVER COVID-19 clusters in Whistler, the Interior and the north stand out on the B.C. Centre for Disease Control s newest weekly map of coronavirus cases. The map divides the province into local health areas, with each one showing the number of cases recorded there during the week of Jan. 24 to 30 and shaded according to the number of daily cases per 100,000 residents in each area. While the largest raw numbers remain in Metro Vancouver, as they have throughout the pandemic, the latest map shows much higher per-capita caseloads elsewhere in the province. The Howe Sound local health area leads the Vancouver Coastal Health region in both categories, a fact likely attributable to the recent surge in infections in the Whistler area.
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