Huge record-breaking jump in Interior Health’s COVID numbers: 376 in the last 24 hours

Despite restrictions imposed on Central Okanagan residents a week ago trying to control a COVID-19 outbreak in the region, the daily case count shot up dramatically today, Aug. 13.

There were 376 new COVID cases detected in the entire Interior Health region in the past 24 hours, according to a B.C. Government news release issued today.

That eclipses the previous high of 275 set last Friday.

During the recent rise in Interior Health cases, the majority have been in the Central Okanagan and most of those contracting COVID have not been vaccinated.

There were 717 cases in the province as a whole in the last 24 hours, with 140 in the Fraser Health region, 101 in Vancouver Coastal, 40 on Vancouver Island and 60 in the Northern Health region.

Of 4,277 active cases in B.C., 2,446 are in Interior Health.

There are 82 people in B.C. hospitals with 39 of those being in intensive care.

There have been no new deaths, leaving that total at 1,779.

The vaccination rate for those aged 12 and over is up to 82.4 per cent for first doses and 72 per cent for those with second doses.


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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