The Delta varaint now accounts for the majority of recent COVID-19 infections in the Interior.

Eighty-nine per cent of the 314 positive tests between July 18 and 24 were the Delta variant, according to the BC Centre for Disease Control91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s . The rest of the 11 per cent was the Gamma variant, a strain that was first documented in Brazil in November.

This comes after the province and Interior Health declared a COVID-19 outbreak across the region and reinstated mask mandates for the Central Okanagan. The majority of B.C.91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s new COVID-19 cases come from the Interior. Kelowna has the most new cases per capita in the Okanagan 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ“ downtown Kelowna has 40 cases per 100,000 people while the rest of the city has 30 cases per 100,000 people.

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