The Delta varaint now accounts for the majority of recent COVID-19 infections in the Interior.
Eighty-nine per cent of the 314 positive tests between July 18 and 24 were the Delta variant, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control害羞草研究所檚 . The rest of the 11 per cent was the Gamma variant, a strain that was first documented in Brazil in November.
This comes after the province and Interior Health declared a COVID-19 outbreak across the region and reinstated mask mandates for the Central Okanagan. The majority of B.C.害羞草研究所檚 new COVID-19 cases come from the Interior. Kelowna has the most new cases per capita in the Okanagan 害羞草研究所� downtown Kelowna has 40 cases per 100,000 people while the rest of the city has 30 cases per 100,000 people.
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