Weekly New Infections Charts Every Monday we take a look at our week to week totals and chart how BC’s fight against COVID-19 is progressing. Because of the reporting schedule used in BC, we use 7-day totals running from Tuesday to Monday. The above chart shows each week of the pandemic as a unique bar.Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 263”
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COVID-19 Diary – Day 258
Revised: Weekly New Infections Charts Today in an unusual Wednesday public briefing, Dr. Bonnie Henry informed the province that due to a glitch, the number of new infections from the Fraser Health Authority had been reported incorrectly, and just over 1 week’s worth of data had to be corrected. As such, we have updated theContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 258”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 256
Weekly New Infections Charts Every Monday we take a look at our week to week totals and chart how BC’s fight against COVID-19 is progressing. Because of the reporting schedule used in BC, we use 7-day totals running from Tuesday to Monday. The above chart shows each week of the pandemic as a unique bar.Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 256”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 249
Weekly Charts As you can see from the above chart, over the last week we saw about 1000 more new cases reported than we did the previous week, and almost double the total number of new cases than we saw the week before that! Our new case numbers continue to be a concern, and inContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 249”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 244
Translink Launches Pilot Copper Project Translink has just announced a pilot project to test the natural anti-microbial effects of copper on their transit system. Copper will be added to high-touch areas on 2 buses and 2 SkyTrain cars and swabbed twice weekly to determine how effective they are at preventing bacterial and viral buildup. AtContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 244”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 242
Weekly Chart Update It’s Monday and that means it’s time for another chart update. We see from the above chart that last week’s total case count was more than 1,000 cases higher than the previous week’s total. This marks the first time we’ve seen week-to-week numbers with such a high increase between them. The recordContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 242”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 235
Weekly Chart Update We received some unpleasant news in today’s public health press conference, in the last 3 days over the weekend, 1,120 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed. Not only is this a new weekend record (by a large margin), we also saw the record for daily cases broken not once but twice! OnContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 235”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 228
Weekly Chart Update The numbers are in for the 7 day period of October 20-26 and they are not good. During the previous week, BC’s record for the most reported cases in a single day was broken 3 times, with our current record sitting at 317 (October 24th’s number). Additionally, the record has now beenContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 228”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 221
Weekly Charts With the start of a new week comes the weekly charts update. Over the weekend BC broke the record for the highest number of new cases in a single day, with 172 new cases reported on Saturday. Unfortunately, that record didn’t hold very long as it was broken almost immediately when 174 newContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 221”
COVID-19 Diary – Day 215
Weekly Chart Update Yesterday was a holiday, so ‘weekly chart day’ was pushed to today! As you can see from the above chart, our weekly totals continue to climb. In fact, this week’s total is the highest weekly total since the beginning of the pandemic. Not just that, but Saturday, October 10th’s new infection numberContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 215”