PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. -- New COVID-19 numbers from the BC Centre for Disease Control show cases spiked in Terrace last week.
From November 13th to 20th, the city's Local Health Area reported 91 new cases.
It's the highest amount of new weekly cases ever recorded in Terrace, since the BCCDC began releasing regional COVID-19 data a year ago.
Other areas facing high rates of the virus include Burns Lake with 17 new cases; Upper Skeena with 10; Nisga'a with nine; and the far northwest with three.
Some areas with lower infection rates include Smithers with 22 new cases last week; Kitimat and Nechako with nine each; Haida Gwaii with two; and Prince Rupert with just one new case.
Terrace was the only region last week to see a significant increase in new cases compared to the previous seven-day reporting period. Prince Rupert, Smithers, Burns Lake and Upper Skeena all saw double-digit declines.
New cases in Northwest BC:
(Parentheses indicate change from previous week)
- Haida Gwaii: 2 (+1)
- Prince Rupert: 1 (-9)
- Nisga'a: 9 (+1)
- Snow Country - Stikine - Telegraph Creek: 3 (-6)
- Terrace: 91 (+28)
- Kitimat: 9 (+1)
- Upper Skeena: 10 (-13)
- Smithers: 22 (-11)
- Burns Lake: 17 (-23)
- Nechako: 9 (-2)
First and second-dose vaccination rates in Northwest BC:
- Kitimat: 100% for first doses, 94% for second doses.
- Nisga'a: 92% for first doses, 86% for second doses.
- Snow Country - Stikine - Telegraph Creek: 91% for first doses, 82% for second doses.
- Haida Gwaii: 90% for first doses, 85% for second doses.
- Prince Rupert: 90% for first doses, 84% for second doses.
- Terrace: 87% for first doses, 81% for second doses.
- Upper Skeena: 85% for first doses, 78% for second doses.
- Smithers: 81% for first doses, 74% for second doses.
- Burns Lake: 78% for first doses, 72% for second doses.
- Nechako: 75% for first doses, 69% for second doses.
