B.C.'s Interior has 15% of province's population, half its new COVID cases - The Daily Courier

Half of the 112 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed Friday - the biggest one-day increase since June 11 - occurred in the region served by Interior Health.

As has been the case for weeks, IH continues to account for a significantly disproportionate number of new infections relative to the region's population.

Fifty-nine of the new cases, or 50% of the total, were in IH; the area accounts for just 15% of the province's population,

Vaccination rates throughout IH continue to lag several percentage points below the provincial average.

The vaccination rate in the Enderby area is just 62%; in North Okanagan/Lumby it's 68%; and in the Rutland area of Kelowna it's 70%.

Highest vaccination rates in the Okanagan, at 80%, are in Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood (everything south of Mission Creek), Summerland, and the areas around Oliver and Osoyoos.

Provincewide, 81.3% of all adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Just over 61% have also received the necessary second shot.

There are now 603 active cases of COVID-19 in B.C., with 256 of them in the Interior Health region. That's more than double the number of active cases in the much-larger Vancouver Coastal Health region.

Four more deaths due to the disease were reported, two of which were in Interior Health. The provincial death toll stands at 1,767.

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B.C.'s Interior has 15% of province's population, half its new COVID cases - The Daily Courier
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