Covid-19

Omicron is cancelling New Year’s and forcing limits on social activities in B.C.
With the increase of COVID-19 cases with the Omicron variant to about 360 today, Dec.…

Here’s what COVID protocols to expect at Thompson-Okanagan ski resorts over the holidays
Hitting the slopes this year in the Thompson-Okanagan region will look different at each ski…

135 new Omicron cases in B.C.; five in Interior Health
There were 753 new COVID cases were detected over the past 24 hours in B.C.…
Easy access to booze helped boost COVID pandemic drinking in Interior Health: study
The Interior Health region had the highest per capita alcohol consumption rate in B.C. during…

$5K bribe didn’t stop daughter of Kamloops doctor from getting COVID jab
A former Royal Inland Hospital anesthesiologist tried to bribe her daughter to dissuade her from…

Interior Health hospitals overloaded, continue to lead B.C. in postponed surgeries
Out of 114 non-emergency, non-urgent surgeries that were cancelled in B.C. last week (Dec. 5-11),…

Upward trajectory of new COVID cases in B.C., Interior Health worry top doctor
Even before today’s data on new COVID cases was released, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie…

Parents start tracking COVID on their own, pulling kids out of school in Kamloops
Some parents of students at Arthur Stevenson Elementary School in Kamloops are keeping their kids…

Omicron has reached the Interior Health region
As of Sunday, Dec. 12 there had been just three cases of the Omicron variant…

COVID-19 cases increase in Central Okanagan, Kamloops
The Central Okanagan and Kamloops has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases while other communities…

COVID daily case count climbs to 437 in B.C.
There were 437 new COVID-19 cases reported in B.C. in the last 24 hours, the…

JONESIE: Come on, Penticton, do the right thing
OPINION In a week when the spectacular and devastating failure by the City of Penticton…

Interior Health slow to get COVID vaccines to children
Only four per cent of children aged five to 11 have received their first dose…

70 new COVID cases in Interior Health region
There were 341 new COVID-19 cases in B.C. in the past 24 hours, 70 of…

379 new COVID-19 cases in B.C.; 94 in Interior Health
There were 379 new COVID-19 cases reported in the past 24 hours in B.C. and…