PROVINCIAL UPDATE 8 JANUARY

• Changes from yesterday highlighted
• Table on weekly positivity rates per province (does not make for pretty viewing today)
• Table on testing/100k per province

Highest new cases for GP & MP.
Significant increase in GP current admissions also.

Weekly positivity rates

• Positivity rates going up for all provinces except EC
• Biggest increase this week from MP (+18.9%), NW (+15.6%) and LP (+13.5%)
• 7 out of 9 provinces with positivity rates over 30% and LP has breached the 50% mark
• Highest point nationally also

Weekly testing/100k

Testing has just not increased enough on the whole, hence the high positivity rates.

• Testing in MP, LP, NW is just dismal considering the rapid rate at which cases have been increasing there
• Even with the best testing rate, WC positivity is almost 45%