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Interior Health 2021
Revelstoke records more than 10% of COVID cases in Interior Health in week leading up to Christmas
In the past week, Revelstoke recorded more than 10% of the COVID cases in the…
COVID rapid test kits available in Interior Health
People with COVID symptoms may be able to pick up a rapid test kit at…
Interior Health puts out call for COVID immunizers
Qualified health-care providers are being called upon by the Interior Health Authority to help out…
Kamloops councillors want answers from Interior Health
Staffing issues and COVID-19 outbreaks persist at Royal Inland Hospital, and Kamloops city council is…
Interior Health COVID case numbers drop to lowest level in months
The 39 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the Interior Health region over the last…
Enderby elementary school closed due to COVID outbreak
An Enderby elementary school has closed for the week following a COVID-19 outbreak. M.V. Beattie…
2 deaths linked to COVID outbreaks at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops
Two people have now died in the latest COVID-19 outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital in…
Summerland health centre closing ‘temporarily’: Interior Health
The Summerland Health Centre Laboratory will be closed temporarily beginning on Nov. 16. Any patients…
Visitors limited at Royal Inland Hospital amid COVID-19 outbreaks
Interior Health is restricting visitors at Royal Inland Hospital as it tries to grapple with…
COVID-19 hammering B.C. Interior’s two biggest hospitals: health officials
The two largest hospitals in the Interior Health region are feeling the effects of the…
COVID-19 cases climb in Interior Health region
There were 115 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the Interior Health region in the…
One-third of unvaccinated B.C. health workers in Interior Health as deadline arrives
Today is the deadline for health-care workers in B.C. to have at least one dose…
Big drop in COVID-19 exposures at schools in Interior Health
The number of schools in the Interior Health region with potential COVID-19 exposures has dropped…
Therapy dogs help alleviate stress at Vernon COVID vaccination clinic
Two dogs with a very important job are helping people get vaccinated in Vernon this…
Homeless people weren’t spared during Central Okanagan COVID outbreak this summer
When a COVID-19 outbreak was declared for the entire Central Okanagan in late July it…
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…
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…
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…
194 deaths in Interior Health in first 7 months this year as overdose crisis continues
In the first seven months of 2021 – to the end of July – 194…
Number of new COVID cases jump in B.C.; stable in Interior Health
There were 832 new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. in the last 24 hours with…
No rest for contact tracers in B.C. as high COVID case counts continue
The number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in B.C. can vary by the hundreds from…
New cases of COVID-19 in B.C. shifting north but Interior Health still heavily impacted
The worst of the fourth wave of COVID-19 in B.C. is shifting away from the…
COVID-19 exposure at North Okanagan grad party
Interior Health has issued an advisory warning those who went to a high school grad…
Kamloops mayor ‘more than frustrated’ by lack of communication from health officials
Kamloops mayor Ken Christian has been reaching out to the B.C. Ministry of Health for…