A medical health officer with Interior Health says positive cases of COVID-19 across the region are skewing younger.

Speaking on the NL Noon Report, Dr. Carol Fenton says that is not unlike what we’re seeing across the province noting younger people testing positive are more likely to have more contacts.

“I will tell you that some of my contact tracer colleagues told me that we are seeing people are having gatherings, people are having large lists of contacts for them to follow up and then that increases our workload because then we have all of that follow-up to do and then we also see more cases,” she said.

Fenton also notes younger people tend to more often than not work in frontline jobs considered essential, and they’re also more likely to live with roommates.

As of the latest data available to the end of April 3, 24,268 of B.C.’s total 106,506 COVID-19 cases were in people between the age of 20 and 29, about 23 per cent of the total. Another 19,521 cases (18 per cent) were in people between the age of 30 and 39.

In the past week from April 4 to 10, new COVID-19 cases in the Kamloops local health area exactly doubled to 96 from 48 between March 28 to April 3.