Interior Health is adding and extending hours at COVID-19 vaccine clinics across the health authority this month to allow people to drop-in at their convenience.

The health authority says drop-in access is for people over the age of 12 – born in 2009 or earlier – who have not received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

“People can arrive, register on the spot, and receive their vaccine. No advance appointments are needed,” IH said. “Second dose notifications are sent by email, phone, or text when it is time to book an appointment.”

Both the clinics at the Tournament Capital Centre and McArthur Island in Kamloops have drop-in hours on Tuesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. There is also drop-in access at McArthur Island from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

In the Merritt area, there is drop-in access on Tuesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena.

For a full list of dates and times of drop-in clinics, go here.

You can also drop-in for a first dose at a mobile vaccine clinic in places like Chase, Cache Creek, Falkland, Logan Lake, and Sorrento/Blind Bay. You’ll find the schedule for the mobile clinics here.

Just over 100 people were vaccinated during a four-hour long clinic in the Cascades Casino parking lot this past Sunday – the first pop-up vaccine clinic of its kind so far in Kamloops.

Interior Health told NL News that many people who showed up at that clinic “indicated they would not have been able to attend some of our other clinics for various personal reasons.”

Through to the end of May, there have been 12,693 confirmed COVID-19 cases across Interior Health, 1,885 of which have been in the Kamloops local health area.

As of yesterday, there were 366 active cases in the health authority with 13 people in hospital, eight of whom are in intensive care. There have been 152 COVID-19 deaths in Interior Health.

The latest data from the BC CDC showed a record low 15 COVID-19 cases in the Kamloops Local Health Area during the week of May 30 and June 5.