Local, regional and provincial COVID-19 figures on the decline

Jun 17, 2022 | 11:30 AM Liam Verster

COVID-19 cases are falling in Greater Vernon, Interior Health and British Columbia on a weekly basis.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) stated that Greater Vernon had nine reported cases of COVID-19 between June 5 and 11, down from the 13 cases in the health area the week prior.

Central Okanagan recorded 17 cases in the latest week, down from 30 the week before. Salmon Arm had six cases, down from 17; and Kamloops had 27 cases in the latest week, down from 28.

The BCCDC data shows there were 116 cases of COVID-19 within Interior Health between June 5 and 11, down from the 150 the previous week.

British Columbia’s overall cases from the latest reporting week were confirmed at 726, down from the 894 the week prior.

Additionally, hospital admissions and deaths linked to COVID-19 were also down on a week-to-week basis in both the Interior and the province.

The BCCDC reported 16 hospitalizations in the Interior and 189 in all of B.C. between June 5 and 11, down from the 32 and 246 hospital admissions the week before, respectively.

There were also 10 deaths linked to the virus in the Interior and 50 across all of B.C. in the latest report. Those figures are down from Interior Health’s 12 deaths and the province’s 57 deaths the week prior.

To date, there have been 373,336 cases of COVID-19 and 3,682 deaths linked to the virus in B.C. Of those, 66,565 cases and 516 deaths have come from the Interior.