6 more deaths from internal viruses
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Cottonwoods Care Center
Six other Interior BC residents with COVID-19 have recently died.
In a press release on Thursday, the British Columbia government announced that all six of the new COVID deaths reported in the past 24 hours were from the interior, bringing the total to 196 in the area.
Data released Thursday by Interior Health shows that two of the most recent deaths came from the Cottonwoods Care Center in Kelowna while another came from the Brookhaven Care Center in West Kelowna.
Three Cottonwoods residents have died of COVID-19 there during the current outbreak, while five Cottonwoods residents have died from the virus.
Two Cottonwoods residents died during a previous COVID outbreak last spring.
To date, there have been 1,824 COVID-19 deaths in BC
There are currently seven COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes in Central Okanagan and 12 across the Interior Health region:
- Sun Pointe Village in Kelowna – five residents
- Brookhaven Care Center in West Kelowna – 10 residents and 8 employees; three deaths
- Cottonwoods Care Center in Kelowna – 19 residents and 10 employees; five deaths
- Hawthorn Park in Kelowna – one resident and four employees
- David Lloyd Jones in Kelowna – 40 residents and 14 employees; seven deaths
- Village at Mill Creek, Kelowna – two residents and three employees
- Spring Valley Care Center in Kelowna – seven residents and four employees; a death
- Nicola Meadows in Merritt – four residents and three employees; a death
- Hardy View Lodge in Grand Forks – One Resident and One Staff
- Kamloops Seniors Village – seven residents and two employees; a death
- Rose Wood Village in Trail – two residents
- Hillside Village in Salmon Arm – one resident and three employees
