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Trying to get a medical exemption to the COVID vaccine? Forget it
With more and more mandatory vaccine requirements being put into place, the temptation may be…
Kelowna airport ‘scrambling’ to implement new mandatory vaccination
After just announcing that free COVID tests are now available to the 1,000 people working…
752 new COVID cases in B.C.; 164 in Interior Health
After a bit of a downward trend in new COVID cases in the Interior Health…
School board condemns anti-mask protest at district office in Kelowna
All across British Columbia, masks became mandatory for students in kindergarten to Grade 3 on…
More nurses, paid sick leave keys to reducing COVID deaths in B.C. care homes: seniors advocate
A new study from B.C.'s seniors advocate says better sick pay provisions and more registered…
Kamloops store owner feels drained by ongoing anti masker conflicts
Some store owners are fed up with the backlash they reportedly are receiving on a…
New COVID case count in Interior Health trending in right direction
The 128 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the Interior Health region in the last…
Mandatory COVID vaccinations for visitors to B.C. health-care facilities
With all health-care workers required to be vaccinated by Oct. 26, provincial health officer Dr.…
Another 100,000 B.C. residents to get 3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose
The number of B.C. residents who will get a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine has…
All B.C. government employees need to get vaccinated
All 30,000 employees of the B.C. Public Service Agency must be fully vaccinated by Nov.…
Intensive care beds filled to capacity in Kamloops, Penticton
While B.C. as a whole has lots of spare intensive care beds, parts of the…
19 more schools in Interior Health on COVID exposure list
The speed at which new schools are being added to the list of potential COVID…
1,986 new B.C. COVID cases over weekend; 414 in Interior Health
An average of 138 Interior Health residents tested positive for COVID-19 from Friday to Sunday…
Fatigued doctors at Kelowna hospital vote unanimously to promote COVID-19 immunization
Doctors working in Kelowna General Hospital are used to working long hours but that doesn’t…
Some Kamloops parents pull kids from school due to lack of COVID information
Some parents are choosing to keep their children home from school as the number of…
Potential COVID exposures close to 200 in B.C.; 68 in Interior Health
The tally of schools in the Interior Health region with potential COVID-19 exposures jumped to…
11 more COVID-19 deaths in B.C.; 6 in Interior Health
Not only does the COVID-19 case count continue to mount in B.C. but so does…
COVID-19 exposures force partial closure of Kamloops school
After numerous students at a Kamloops Catholic school have been isolated due to COVID-19 exposures,…
All B.C. students will have to wear masks at school starting on Monday
All kindergarten to Grade 12 students, along with all staff, in B.C. schools have to…
749 new COVID cases in B.C. with 157 in Interior Health
The bulk of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. continue to be in the Fraser Health…
No mask mandate for younger grades at Kamloops, Kelowna schools despite high rate of potential COVID exposures
Despite having more schools potentially exposed to COVID-19 than most other districts in B.C., the…
COVID case numbers continue to edge higher in B.C. and Interior Health
It was another bad day on the COVID-19 front for B.C. with 813 new cases,…
Number of schools with COVID exposures in Interior Health doubled in 24 hours
By late afternoon yesterday there were 15 schools in the Interior Health region posted as…
Canada’s population growth takes pandemic hit
Canada's population growth has slowed substantially as COVID-19 raised the number of deaths and border…