The Tri-Cities collectively holds an average of 68% in terms of how many residents have received two COVID-19 vaccine doses.
New data presented by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) now features a statistic that explains the percentage of eligible people aged 12 years and older across the region who have been inoculated twice since the province's GetVaccinated portal officially opened.
Recent pop-up clinics and visits to vaccination centres have likely contributed to the new numbers this week, including one that took place in Port Moody's Rocky Point Park on July 17.
Yesterday (July 28), Fraser Health hosted its second pop-up vaccination clinic in the Tri-Cities area in as many weeks, spending three hours set up at White Pine Beach in Belcarra Regional Park as part of the Vax for B.C. campaign.
In Port Moody's surveillance sub-region, which also includes Anmore and Belcarra, has also surpassed the 85% threshold in terms of eligible first jabs.
The seesaw trend of positivity rates also continues. For a third consecutive week, southeast Coquitlam recorded the only 0% rate in the category.
The numbers — collected between July 20 and 26 — broken down among the five surveillance neighbourhoods are as follows. Case rates are new cases per 100,000 people by local health area and community health service area:
North Coquitlam
- Two cases
- 2% positivity rate
- 83% of 12+ population vaccinated with at least one dose
- 66% of 12+ population vaccinated with a second dose
Southwest Coquitlam
- One case
- 1% positivity rate
- 84% of 12+ population vaccinated with at least one dose
- 67% of 12+ population vaccinated with a second dose
Southeast Coquitlam
- Zero cases
- 0% positivity rate
- 83% of 12+ population vaccinated with at least one dose
- 68% of 12+ population vaccinated with a second dose
Port Coquitlam
- One case
- 0% positivity rate
- 82% of 12+ population vaccinated with at least one dose
- 68% of 12+ population vaccinated with a second dose
Port Moody-Anmore-Belcarra
- Two cases
- 2% positivity rate
- 85% of 12+ population vaccinated with at least one dose
- 71% of 12+ population vaccinated with a second dose
Between July 11 and 17, healthcare officials detected 15 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Tri-Cities.
This was an increase of four compared to 11 found in the previous count — July 4 to 10 — and marks the first time since mid-April the region saw any kind of increase in lab-confirmed infections.
The number went from 381 to 514 between April 4 and 10, and has decreased in large or small quantities since.
NEED A FIRST OR SECOND VACCINE?
The Vax for B.C. province-wide initiative is going to the movies in Coquitlam on Aug. 6 as one of many "special event clinics."
At Cineplex Coquitlam — located at 170 Schoolhouse St. — Fraser Health is set to administer vaccines between 3 and 7 p.m. in an effort to offer convenience for eligible residents who still haven't received a first dose.
If you've been jabbed once already, and it's been more than seven weeks since, the province says you can drop-in for your second dose as well.
Meanwhile, the Poirier Forum's drop-in vaccine clinic remains open daily from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. for eligible residents looking for a first vaccine.
It'll also now be open for anyone looking to get a second needle to the shoulder and it's been at least 49 days since their first.
However, the vaccine clinic at the Coquitlam Central Station Park and Ride overflow lot is not listed under the Vax for B.C. plan and will continue to inoculate first doses only between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on a daily basis.
