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A staff member of Kootenay Street Village (KSV) has been diagnosed with COVID-19. The staff member is in self-isolation at home. No residents have been affected to date.

Interior Health (IH) is aware of questions in local communities about the ongoing Teck Resources Ltd. operations in the Elk Valley and COVID-19.

On Monday, April 6, the Interior Health Community Health Services Centre closed due to a substantial water leak in the plumbing system. Repair and remediation steps at the site are currently underway.

Interior Health (IH) has identified a case of COVID-19 in an individual who visited Anavets 290 Army & Navy Club at 9-177 Tranquille Rd., Kamloops, B.C. between March 13 and 17.

Interior Health is actively following up on any individuals who had contact with an inmate at Okanagan Correctional Centre who has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Chief Medical Health Officer at Interior Health has issued an order for all fitness centres, gyms, yoga studios, or similar personal training facilities whether indoors or outdoors to close as of April 2, 2020.

Interior Health is investigating an outbreak of COVID-19 illness involving a group of temporary foreign workers residing in housing at a West Kelowna agricultural business.

Interior Health will close the emergency department at the Elkford Health Centre effective April 1, 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Interior Health is temporarily suspending pay parking for the public, staff and physicians at its sites where pay parking exists, effective April 1 until further notice.