COVID-19 cases (very) slowly declining in Niagara Region
Published May 3, 2022 at 3:11 pm
Today (May 3) is probably the best day Niagara Region has seen for new COVID-19 cases in many months.
While they continue to caution the figures their reported numbers are “an underestimate of the true number of individuals in Niagara with COVID-19,” there were only 15 known new cases today.
That is a significant drop from the beginning of the past 28 day cycle when April 6 saw 207 new cases.
However, the most optimistic factor of the past week shows the numbers very slowly dropping.
Last Wednesday (April 27) started with a fairly high 123 new known cases but after that, there’s been a decline. By Thursday, it has dropped under 100 to 95 before falling further to 71 by April 29.
The decline continue to Saturday as there were 60 new cases and then finally on May 1, it shrunk further to 35.
Yesterday saw a bounce back to 58 new known cases before sinking to today’s new low of 15.
At the moment, the region calculates that there are 1,660 known cases in Niagara. There have been 39,800 cases in Niagara since the pandemic began in March 2020 and 544 deaths in the region. That’s a mortality rate of 1.36 per cent, pretty much exactly what health officials predicted from the beginning.
