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Interior Health thanks the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, the City of Penticton and the BC Wildfire Service for ensuring we are briefed and supported in response to the Christie Mountain wildfire.

Interior Health is taking proactive measures to protect patients, clients, residents and staff from the Christie Mountain fire.

Interior Health is taking proactive measures to protect patients, clients, residents and staff from the Christie Mountain fire.

Interior Health’s board of directors has extended the temporary appointment of an administrator to oversee the day-to-day operations of Summerland Seniors Village in Summerland to Jan. 15, 2021.

Interior Health is working closely with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, the City of Penticton and the BC Wildfire Service to support people affected by the Mount Christie wildfire.

Interior Health, the Ministry of the Environment and the First Nations Health Authority are working with the City of Salmon Arm, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, and Shuswap Watershed Council to monitor a large algal bloom that has filled most of the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake.

Recent testing of individuals has allowed Interior Health (IH) to identify an additional date for people who may have been at the Cactus Club on Water Street and potentially exposed to COVID-19.

With the number of new cases of COVID-19 stabilizing again in Kelowna, Interior Health is suspending the temporary testing site located at their Community Health Services Centre, effective today.

Further testing of individuals has allowed Interior Health (IH) to identify an additional location in Kelowna where individuals may have been exposed to COVID-19.