Coronavirus cases across Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam and Port Moody are up again, with a modest increase of 10%.
Total new cases for the region reached 111 over the last week of January, up from 101 during the previous reporting period.
The new data, released by the BC Centre for Disease Control Thursday, reveals the last two weeks of January saw new cases grow by over 24% across the Tri-Cities, a region which also encompasses Anmore and Belcarra.
Despite the increase in cases — including a cluster at a Port Coquitlam middle school — the Tri-Cities’ per-capita infection rate continues to fall between five and 10 cases per 100,000 people, a range shared with most jurisdictions across the Lower Mainland.
Across British Columbia, last week’s highest per-capita infection rates were found in a swath of territory covering the Bella Coola Valley and the Cariboo/Chilcotin; the province’s interior, in Merrit and Fernie; northern jurisdictions of B.C. like Fort Nelson and Terrace; and the Sea-to-Sky region as cases surge in communities like Whistler.
