{"id":57339,"date":"2021-08-19T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=57339"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:14:12","slug":"number-of-vancouver-island-covid-19-cases-on-the-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/number-of-vancouver-island-covid-19-cases-on-the-rise-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Vancouver Island COVID-19 cases on the rise again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Amidst reports of\u00a0a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, the numbers of active cases on Vancouver Island is once again rising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The virus appeared to have totally disappeared from the north of the island by the end of June. While there were still cases in the more populated south and central regions, they numbered in dozens rather than hundreds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57340\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM.png\" data-dt-img-description=\"New CVID cases in Vancouver Island Local Health Areas between August 8th and 14th - Map adapted from BC Centre for Disease Control by Roy L Hales\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57340\" class=\" wp-image-57340\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Map of Vancouver Island Local Health Areas, showing new CVID cases between August 8th and 14th\" width=\"542\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM.png 727w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM-483x500.png 483w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM-500x517.png 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-10.15.25-AM-208x215.png 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New COVID-19 cases in Vancouver Island Local health areas between Aug. 8-14. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/Health-Info-Site\/PublishingImages\/health-info\/diseases-conditions\/covid-19\/data\/covid19_lha_20210808_20210814.png\">Map adapted from BC Centre for Disease Control<\/a> by Roy L Hales<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandhealth.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/covid-19\/documents\/public-health-covid19-daily-dashboard.pdf\">Island Health reported 278 active cases yesterday<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Aug. 28), and 28 of these were in North Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <span class=\"s1\">breakdown by specific Local Health Areas in the north, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/Health-Info-Site\/PublishingImages\/health-info\/diseases-conditions\/covid-19\/data\/covid19_lha_20210808_20210814.png\">during the epi-week ending on Saturday, Aug. 14<\/a><\/span>, was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">14 in the Comox Valley<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">6 in Greater Campbell River, many of which are connected to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandhealth.ca\/learn-about-health\/covid-19\/outbreaks-and-exposures\"><span class=\"s1\">outbreak Discovery Harbour Long-Term Care Home<\/span><\/a>, in Campbell River<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">1 in Vancouver Island North<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">There were no cases in Vancouver Island West at that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Canada\u2019s Chief Public Health Officer, <span class=\"s1\">Dr. Theresa Tam, says<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/news\/2021\/08\/remarks-from-the-chief-public-health-officer-on-august-12-2021.html\">the transmission is primarily occurring among unvaccinated young adults.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhile the Delta variant is more contagious, a complete two-dose series of COVID-19 vaccine still provides substantial protection. The vast majority of cases and hospitalizations are in those not fully vaccinated,\" Tam said in the statement Aug. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst reports of\u00a0a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, the numbers of active cases on Vancouver Island is once again rising. The virus appeared to have totally disappeared from the north of the island by the end of June. While there were still cases in the more populated south and central regions, they numbered in dozens&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":57345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218],"tags":[3076,284,8898,3461],"radio":[],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57339"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=57339"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=57339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}