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Interior Health is advising several individuals who attended a private party at Hotel Zed in the early hours of Sept. 7 that they may have been exposed to COVID-19.

More people in West Kelowna and surrounding communities will have increased access to better, improved health care, with a new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC) opening in November 2020 at 2484 Main St.

Interior Health is making it easier for the public and clinicians in the South Okanagan to access and navigate community-based supports for mental health and substance use, home and community care, and chronic disease management services.

Effective today, people who live in the Kootenay Boundary region can now access an updated emergency department (ED) at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) in Trail.

Starting Aug. 25, local residents enrolled in MyHealthPortal can book Shuswap outpatient lab appointments online.

Interior Health will re-open the emergency department at the Elkford Health Centre, effective Aug. 31, 2020.

Normal operations are resuming at local health sites as the Christie Mountain wildfire evacuation alerts are lifted.

Interior Health is closely monitoring the Talbot Creek wildfire near Castlegar in the Slocan Valley.

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.