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76 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; almost half in Interior Health

76 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; almost half in Interior Health | iNFOnews.ca
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B.C. saw one of its highest daily number of new COVID-19 cases in the past month with 76 recorded in the past 24 hours.

That includes 37, almost half, in the Interior Health region alone, according to a Health Ministry news release today, July 20.

There were 27 new cases in the Fraser Health region, nine in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, three in the Vancouver Island Health region and none in the Northern Health region.

There are 692 active cases in B.C. with 207 in Interior Health. There are 50 people in hospital with 12 in intensive care.

The province has now hit the 80 per cent vaccination rate for first doses to all those over the age of 12. Second doses have risen to 54.4 per cent of residents.

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Rob Munro

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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