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In areas throughout the Interior region, river levels have been high due to snowmelt and rainfall. The River Forecast Centre continues to monitor conditions. Part of being prepared includes being aware of water safety following local flooding.

An order by Interior Health’s Chief Medical Health Officer closing all fitness centres, gyms, yoga studios or similar personal training facilities will be lifted on May 19.

Beginning May 19, Interior Health (IH) will resume elective surgeries that were postponed due to COVID-19.

Following extensive consultation and planning, Interior Health (IH) is expanding mental health and substance use services at the Downtown Primary Care Centre in Vernon.

Interior Health’s Medical Health Officer has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 illness over at a West Kelowna agricultural business.

Due to ongoing construction on the Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower project, patient access to RIH will be temporarily changed beginning Monday, May 4, 2020.

An outbreak has been declared at Hawthorn Park and Orchard Manor Community of Care after a staff member was diagnosed with COVID-19. The staff member is in self-isolation at home. No residents have been affected to date.

On April 15, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health, reported an outbreak of COVID-19 at the Kearl Lake oil sands project, north of Fort McMurray.