The Daily Courier

Pace of infections slows in Kelowna

- By RON SEYMOUR

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 in the Central Okanagan has dropped for the second consecutiv­e week.

Between Dec. 20 and Dec. 26, an average of 30 people a day in the greater Kelowna area were testing positive for the disease.

That’s down from 37 the week before, and from 50 between Dec. 6 and 12.

The recent decline in new infections in the greater Kelowna area matches what is happening in other parts of the province, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

Between Dec. 31 and Jan. 3, an average of 553 new cases of COVID-19 were reported each day across B.C.

That compares with the average of 800 new cases that were being reported province-wide in late November and early December.

“We have bent our curve, slightly,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Dec. 23. “And we’re now, perhaps, on a downward trajectory.”

From Dec. 20-26, 214 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in the Central Okanagan, which includes Kelowna, West Kelowna, Lake Country, and Peachland.

The most recent weekly numbers for other areas of the Okanagan were 48 in Vernon, 31 in Penticton, 15 in the South Okanagan, and four in Summerland.

Another update on the rate of new infections in the Central Okanagan, as well as other community-specific regions of the province, is to be provided by the B.C. CDC today.

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