Interior Health is reporting four new COVID-19 cases at Royal Inland Hospital as well as one new death.

It means there are now 54 cases and three deaths connected to the hospital in Kamloops. That is up from 50 cases and two deaths on Tuesday.

There are now 28 cases connected to Unit 5 South – 20 patients and eight staff members – with two deaths, an increase in one staff case.

Another two staff members on Unit 5 North have also tested positive, taking the total there to ten cases – five patients and five staff members. On Unit 6 South, there are now 11 patients who have tested positive, an increase of one from Tuesday.

There were no new cases connected to Unit 7 North though there was one more death reported. There are still five cases there – four patients and one staff member.

Interior Health says Unit 5 South is a medical ward, Unit 7 North is a renal/cardiac ward, Unit 6 South is a surgical ward, and Unit 5 North is a stroke/rehab ward.

These numbers come as B.C. reported 324 new cases of the virus Wednesday along with seven more deaths.

There were 50 new cases in Interior Health, which has 622 active cases. Provincewide, there are 3,380 active cases of COVID-19, with 379 contagious people in hospital, 109 of those in intensive care.

There are now 90.7 per cent of people over the age of 12 (4,206,179) who have gotten their first dose of a COVID vaccine, while 86.9 per cent (4,027,146) are fully vaccinated.