Image Credit: B.C. Centre for Disease Control

By James Peters

COVID-19

Kamloops recorded 44 COVID-19 cases last week – less than half of the week before

Apr 21, 2021 | 5:06 PM

KAMLOOPS — There are encouraging signs for Kamloops in the most recent COVID-19 data provided by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

The map reporting case counts by community for the week of April 11 to 17 shows 44 cases in Kamloops during that period, less than half of the total of 96 from the week previous.

Though Kelowna continues to see the highest rate of spread in the Thompson-Okanagan region, that city’s numbers were down as well, from 288 to 242.

Here are the totals for areas surrounding Kamloops between April 11 and 17, 2021:

• Cariboo/Chilcotin – 7 (up by 6 from last week)
• North Thompson – 0 (down by 1)
• 100 Mile House – 0 (unchanged)
• South Cariboo – 2 (up by 1)
• Lillooet – 0 (unchanged)
• Merritt – 7 (unchanged)
• Vernon – 41 (down by 15)
• Armstrong-Spallumcheen – 2 (down by 4)
• Enderby – 6 (up by 4)
• Salmon Arm — 13 (unchanged)
• Revelstoke – 11 (down by 10)
• Central Okanagan-Kelowna — 242 (down by 46)

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