BC Covid update Thursday: new community outbreak at Okanagan business

Oct 15, 2020 | 3:35 PM

B.C. is reporting 142 new cases of COVID-19 today, raising the provincial total to 11,034.

Two of the new cases are in Interior Health (IH).

There is also a new community outbreak in IH, at the FedEx office at the Kelowna Airport, with three cases of COVID among staff members and six employees isolating at home.

“Public health teams are on site and are working with the business and contact tracing is underway. There is no risk to people picking up packages,” said Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer.

Interior Health said the business has sufficient precautions in place to prevent COVID-19 transmission to the public, and there has been no COVID exposure to the general public.