Campbell River Health Area releatively COVID free

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Statistics released by the BC Centre for Disease Control show that our area is relatively COVID free.

These are found on a series of maps, and a weekly report, released on Thursday, October 8th.

One of the maps shows the number of new COVID cases in the previous fourteen days. While there were 19 reported on Vancouver Island, only three were in the region stretching north from Courtenay.

Another map gives the total number of cases, since the outbreak began, in Northern, Central and Southern Vancouver Island. There have been 71 in North Island, only two more than last week.

Local Health Areas
The BC Centre for Disease Control releases the cumulative data for every Local Health Area in British Columbia every month. The most recent, which shows the number of cases reported as of September 30th, was updated yesterday.

It breaks Northern Vancouver Island into four areas. Comparing the data with previous maps, we find:

There were 4 new cases in the Comox Valley during September
Another case was reported in Vancouver Island North, which includes the communities of Port McNeill, Port Hardy and Coal Harbour.
There were no new cases in Kyuquot, Zeballos and Tahsis, and the rest of Vancouver Island West, since August. A single case has been reported in that region.
There have been no new reports in the Campbell River area, which includes Cortes, Quadra and the rest of the Discovery Islands, since July. At that point there had been a total of 12 cases since the pandemic entered our area.

This detailed breakdown ends on September 30th and, as mentioned earlier, there have been at least two more cases reported somewhere in northern Vancouver Island.