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Two Timmies in Kelowna shut down due to COVID-19

Interior Health has ordered two Tim Hortons outlets in Kelowna to be closed temporarily because of COVID-19 cases on site.

The restaurant at 1901 Harvey Ave. was actually ordered closed on May 20 until June 4 but that was only posted on the Interior Health website today, May 27.

The other location at 1572-2771 Harvey Ave. was ordered closed today. It’s scheduled to reopen on June 4 as well.

Interior Health can order businesses to close where they’ve detected the transmission of COVID-19.

Closures can be seen on the Interior Health Public Exposures web page here.

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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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