Public Advisory: Updates to COVID-19 Dashboard and Public Reporting

  • Health and Community Services

July 5, 2023

Public Health has made updates to the COVID-19 Dashboard. Changes include an update to how deaths are reported, which will provide clarity on when the reported death(s) occurred, and a new graph will help the public understand trends in COVID-19 related deaths over the past year. Public Health has considered feedback to aid with ease of interpretation.

Public Health will be changing the frequency in which it issues public reporting of COVID-19 trends in the province to the last Wednesday of each month by 3:00 p.m. After this week’s reporting, monthly reporting on the COVID-19 dashboard will begin on Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

Frequency of reporting has varied through the course of the pandemic based on threat of circulating virus. A reduction in reporting would align with the current COVID-19 situation, and how other jurisdictions nationally report the virus.

While the COVID-19 situation has improved locally and internationally, Public Health would like to remind the public to keep informed on COVID-19 news and stay up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccinations.

Public Health will still continue to collect and monitor disease trends.

Please note that the dashboard may be temporarily unavailable while it is in the process of being updated.

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2023 07 05 2:40 pm