
A long-term care home in a small South Okanagan town now has 28 cases of COVID-19.
The outbreak at McKinney Place in Oliver includes 27 residents who have tested positive and one staff member. There were eight residents who tested positive when the outbreak was first reported two days ago.
There are 61 residents total who live at McKinney Place. The care home is on the same property as the South Okanagan General Hospital, and Interior Health says the outbreak there hasn’t spread into SOGH.
Interior Health says all 28 cases are “stable.”
Across the health authority, there are 17 people in hospital and three people in intensive care, with now 637 active cases.
No long-term care homes in Kamloops or anywhere else in the Thompson-Nicola region are currently experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak.