The number of new COVID-19 cases in the City of Delta has dropped for a third straight week.
According to the BC Centre for Disease Control’s latest community map, covering the period Sept. 12 to 18, Delta had 36 cases.
The latest numbers had Surrey at 291, Langley had 185, Abbotsford had 195, Richmond had 58, Burnaby had 189 and Vancouver had 427 cases.
The average daily case rate of new cases per 100,000 population, from Sept. 13 to 19, had Tsawwassen at four cases, Ladner at six and North Delta at four cases.
As far as the vaccination rate, as of Sept. 21, the number of people 12-years-old and up in Delta who received a first dose stood at 92 per cent, while 86 per cent have received a second dose.
Meanwhile, the province this week announced it is going to reverse its new policy of not notifying all parents in a school community if there had been an exposure at their schools.
Just those who were exposed were notified directly.
Notices to all parents at schools were only being issued if there had been a cluster or outbreak.
The BC School Covid Tracker Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/BCSchoolCovidTracker/ - has been publishing notification letters.
According to that site, a notification was sent that there had been an exposure at Hawthorne Elementary in Ladner on Sept. 13.
North Delta schools Gray Elementary had an exposure Sept. 7 and Seaquam Secondary had an exposure Sept. 7, 8 and 9.
A notification letter was also recently sent to parents of students of a class at Ladner Elementary of a possible exposure on Sept. 13.
