Approach to Suspect COVID-19 Cases Presenting in a Community Setting IH-PH-COV-043 16Mar2020 . RELATED: COVID-19 case confirmed at Big White after party “Large households and social gatherings appear to be responsible for much of the COVID-19 transmission related to this cluster,” reads a release from Interior Health. Email: michael.rodriguez@kelownacapnews.com. Eight more people have died of the virus, including one within Interior Health. The numbers, announced Jan. 4, are from four reporting periods. Thirty-five people are in hospital, seven of whom are in intensive care. B.C. IH noted the other three as community deaths. Heritage Square long-term care in Vernon has 30 cases: 20 residents and 10 staff, with one death connected to this outbreak. The health authority says the cumulative total in the area is now "above 85 cases" since the start of the pandemic, up from 50 in early December. Ten more people have died and 239 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in the Interior Health (IH) region since Christmas Eve, the health authority announced on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Twenty-eight people are in hospital with the virus, seven of whom are in intensive care. The Interior Health region is closing in on 4,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 83 more announced on Thursday afternoon. No new deaths were noted in the region, leaving the death toll at six. Twenty-eight are in the hospital, seven of whom are in ICU. Interior Health (IH) is reporting 61 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death on Tuesday, Jan. 5. READ MORE: B.C. The agency issued a public health alert for the area on Jan. 5. Thirty-nine people are in hospital, six of whom are in intensive care. Seven of the 10 deaths came from four care home outbreaks: four at McKinney Place in Oliver and one at each Mountainview Village in Kelowna, Village by the Station in Penticton and West Kelowna’s Heritage Retirement Residence. A total of 636 cases remain active and 36 people are in hospital. The new cases of the virus bring the region’s case-count to 3,806 since testing began. The authority says 96 cases have been linked to … Interior Health is warning the public of increasing COVID-19 activity in the Revelstoke area with 29 new cases identified in the past two weeks. IH has provided a breakdown of case counts in each outbreak in the region: An update on the Big White Mountain COVID-19 cluster is expected to be released tomorrow. Interior Health (IH) is reporting 57 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, Dec. 30. Interior Health Big White COVID-19 community cluster Friday update. — Michael Rodriguez (@MichaelRdrguez) December 30, 2020. Mountainview Village long-term care in Kelowna remains at 16 cases: eight residents and eight staff, with two deaths connected to this outbreak. There has been one death connected to this outbreak. If you decide to test for COVID-19, please advise the patient to . B.C. Broken down by day, there were 107 cases reported Jan. 1, 71 on Jan. 2, 52 on Jan. 3 and 60 on Jan. 4. Officials at Interior Health are now discouraging non-essential travel and asking citizens to be vigilant as COVID-19 cases surge in the region. The Big White cluster grew by 15 cases to a total case-count of 111, IH announced earlier today. real estate agent fined $25K for subletting rented home and keeping the cash, RCMP pay another visit to Kelowna church already fined for defying public health orders. Seven across four care home outbreaks and three community deaths. The Interior Health region saw a record high 99 new COVID-19 cases Friday, bringing the total active cases across the region to 758. The number of active cases is 809. Interior Health (IH) is reporting 290 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths over the New Year’s long weekend. In Interior Health’s latest weekly updates on Jan. 6, there were 37 more cases between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2. B.C.’s trend in diagnosed cases dipped down with 522 more on Tuesday, after 759 Monday, and about 700 per day during the past weekend. Several members were nonetheless among those who stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Packaging suppliers are still figuring eco-friendly and affordable packaging options that fit the mandates of Cannabis Regulations, Neither RCMP nor Kelowna Harvest Fellowship has confirmed whether the church was fined a second time, Peter Christopher Dolecki also faced a two-month suspension, Team says the move was made out of an ‘abundance of caution’, Shipping, fitting all made complicated by COVID, The ashes were supposed to arrive by Christmas Eve. Mountainview Village long-term care in Kelowna has at 16 cases: eight residents and eight staff. Interior Health’s first COVID-19 update of 2021 is in and it covers a four-day reporting period over the New Year’s long weekend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marissa Tiel, Thirty-three people are in hospital; six of whom are in intensive care. Get local stories you won't find anywhere else right to your inbox. Big White COVID-19 cluster grows to 111 cases, HAPHAZARD HISTORY: Murder at the Chilco Ranch, Snowmobiler suffers severe injuries after crash on Simon Lake, UPDATE: Bella Coola’s Nuxalk First Nation sees COVID-19 climb to 13 confirmed cases, COLUMNS: Wagon road to Kluskus (Lhoosk’uz): part three, Sister in B.C. The health authority says the cumulative total in the area is now "above 85 cases" since the start of the pandemic, up from 50 in early December. The numbers, announced Jan. 4, are from four reporting periods. 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