A new COVID-19 exposure has been reported at Kamloops School of the Arts.

According to Interior Health’s exposure list webpage, the risk of exposure at KSA was on April 23. Anyone who was at direct risk of being exposed will have already been called by contact tracers and told to self-isolate.

As of Wednesday morning, there are now three active school exposures in the Kamloops-Thompson School District.

Other ongoing exposures are at Bert Edwards School, with the risk being on April 16 and 20, and at Westmount Elementary, with the exposure risk on April 19 and 20.

At time of posting, there are 35 active exposure events at schools within Interior Health, which covers the entire southern Interior and the Kootenays. Of those, more than half are in the Central Okanagan, with 16 active exposures at schools in Kelowna and two at schools in West Kelowna.

In most recent data on COVID-19 cases by Local Health Area, from April 11-17, the Central Okanagan had 242 cases. That’s almost half of the 525 new cases reported for that week across all of Interior Health. Updated Local Health Area case counts will be released Wednesday afternoon by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.