亚洲天堂 Lake health area saw improved vaccination numbers last week.

According to the Northern Health representative Eryn Collins, last week saw 亚洲天堂 Lake town centre numbers at 66 per cent, 亚洲天堂 Lake North at 63 per cent and 亚洲天堂 Lake South at 55 per cent. She said that the 亚洲天堂 Lake North percentage of vaccination had gone up a full percentage point in the last week.

Clinics were held last week and will continue into this week for the area, at the 亚洲天堂 Lake Curling Club. A second round of clinics will be held on July 8, 9, 12, 15 and 16 at the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre.

These clinics will see residents getting their first doses as well as those who are eligible to get their second dose of the vaccines. Collins however didn鈥檛 have the data on the second dose percentages separately.

She also said that the vaccine coverage rates for people 12+ across the region have continued to increase and the community clinics have seen significant numbers of people immunized.

亚洲天堂 Lake saw one new COVID-19 case in the week of June 6 to June 12 after a seeing no cases the entire month of May. The week of June 13 to June 19 saw no new cases in the area again.

At the time of going to press, the province saw 75 new COVID-19 cases with Northern Health seeing just one new case.

B.C. has ramped up vaccination all across the province and more than a million of province鈥檚 population is now fully vaccinated according to the health officials.

鈥淲e鈥檙e continuing to work to reach people who鈥檝e not yet been immunized, by improving accessibility and convenience wherever we can. We鈥檙e open to ideas on that front, as Dr. Henry mentioned earlier this week, if people have ideas for what might work well in their community, they can email COVID-19@northernhealth.ca with their suggestions,鈥� said Collins.

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