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By James Peters
COVID-19

COVID-19 case count jumped in Kamloops last week

Mar 3, 2021 | 5:28 PM

KAMLOOPS — After an encouraging decline the previous week, Kamloops saw a rising COVID-19 case count again last week.

In the latest data broken down by local health area (LHA), the B.C. Centre for Disease Control reports 124 COVID-19 cases in the Kamloops region for the week of February 21 to 27.

That is an increase of 46 from the week before.

Kamloops still has the highest COVID-19 case count of all Interior Health LHAs.

Here are the totals for areas surrounding Kamloops:

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  • North Thompson – 1 (up by 1)
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  • Lillooet – 0 (unchanged)
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  • Enderby – 0 (unchanged)
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  • Revelstoke – 1 (down by 3)
  • Central Okanagan-Kelowna — 42 (up by 6)
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