Interior Health has announced three additional deaths in the region due to COVID-19, as well as 81 more cases of the virus.
The deaths were all from long-term care homes. Two of the deaths are from Heritage Square in Vernon and one from West Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 Heritage Retirement Residence.
Interior Health香蕉视频直播檚 CEO Susan Brown said it has been a week of celebration, as well as heartbreak.
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IH began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine throughout the region a few weeks ago, beginning with priority populations.
Vaccinations are now happening at long-term care homes, with residents from Sunnybank in Oliver getting inoculated first.
IH said the vaccine given to the residents was the Pfizer-BioNTech one, as the health authority has now been given permission to move the vaccine short distances.
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IH also provided updates on the current outbreaks in the region:
- Sunnybank long-term care in Oliver has 19 cases: 15 residents and four staff members
- Vernon香蕉视频直播檚 Creekside Landing has 10 residents and three staff infected for a total of 13 cases
- Williams Lake Seniors Village has two cases: a resident and a staff member
- Noric House in Vernon has 21 cases: 19 residents and two staff
- Heritage Square, also in Vernon, has 41 cases: 31 residents, 10 staff and four deaths connected to this outbreak
- Heritage Retirement Residence in West Kelowna has 42 cases: 37 residents, five staff and two deaths connected to this outbreak
- McKinney Place in Oliver has 77 cases: 54 residents and 23 staff, with 14 deaths connected to this outbreak
- Village by the Station in Penticton has nine cases: five residents an d four staff members, with one death connected to this outbreak
- Mountainview Village in Kelowna has 16 cases: eight residents and eight staff, with two deaths from this outbreak
- Teck mining operations remains at 16 cases
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