B.C. health authorities are not providing information on the location of COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) by Local Health Area.
Currently, this means that if VOCs are detected in Revelstoke, public health will not disclose that information.
Local Health Areas (LHA) are the smallest division of health regions in B.C. The largest entities are health authorities; Revelstoke is in the Interior Health region. The next subdivision is the Health Service Delivery Area (HSDA). Revelstoke is located in the Thompson-Cariboo-Shuswap HSDA. Finally, Revelstoke is its own Local Health Area, which includes the city and surrounding rural areas.
On April 5, an Interior Health spokesperson confirmed that the information is not provided by LHA.
On Mar. 31, Interior Health released VOC case numbers for the entire health region.
In total, there have been 70 variants of concern detected in the region, five of which were active as of Mar. 31.
They are:
-B.1.1.7 (UK): 42 (of which one is active)
-B.1.351 (South Africa): 1 (zero active)
-P.1 (Brazil): 27 (of which 4 are active)
In a media statement released with the update, Interior Health said that there had been “a few small clusters” of the P.1 variant, “but those have been contained to households.”
They also said that protocols for contact tracing and case follow-up “are the same for all forms of COVID-19.”
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