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Interior Health (IH) has identified a case of COVID-19 at the Save-On-Foods pharmacy in the Columbia Place Shopping Centre in Sahali.

Effective immediately and until further notice, Interior Health is limiting the number of visitors entering all sites to essential visits only.

Interior Health is making changes to long-term care and community programs and services to protect those most vulnerable to COVID-19 and address potential pressures on the acute care system.

Interior Health is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) to respond to COVID-19.

People living in Castlegar will soon have better access to team-based urgent and primary care with the opening of a new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC).

Residents are advised that due to unexpected limited physician availability for the South Okanagan General Hospital, the emergency department will be closed from 6:00 p.m. March 8, 2020 to 8:00 a.m. March 9, 2020.

Interior Health has declared an outbreak at Cottonwoods Care Centre in Kelowna.

Interior Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak on unit 5B at Kelowna General Hospital.

Interior Health is pleased to announce that ophthalmologist Dr. Faye Pesenti and an ophthalmology technician will support outreach ophthalmology clinic services at Kootenay Lake Hospital starting on April 2, 2020.