COVID-19 cases continue to fall in the Interior, B.C.

The regional and provincial cases of COVID-19 saw big declines in the last weekly update.

The B.C Centre for Disease Control’s report from May 29 to June 4 stated there were 151 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Interior and 895 across B.C.

Those figures are down from the 216 cases in the Interior and 1,161 throughout the province reported the week prior.

As far as individual cities, Greater Vernon had 13 reported cases that week, the Central Okanagan had 30, Armstrong-Spallumcheen and Enderby both had one, and Salmon Arm reported 17 new infections.

Additionally, the Interior had just 29 hospital admissions with COVID-19 in the latest reporting week, down from the 37 the week before.

B.C. as a whole saw hospital admissions decline to 219, down from 310.

The Interior saw the number of deaths linked to the virus decline to 10 in the latest report, down from 14 the week before and 15 the week prior to that. In all of B.C., there were 43 deaths reported between May 29 and June 4, down from 61 the week before and 75 two weeks ago.

In the latest weekly report, Fraser Health had the highest new case count at 328, and the most hospital admissions at 91. Vancouver Island Health had the most deaths linked to the virus at 14.

To date, there have been 66,451 cases of COVID-19 in the Interior and 372,611 in all of B.C.

There have also been 3,612 deaths linked to the virus in B.C., 503 of which had occurred in the Interior.