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Vaccination rates continue to climb within Smithers and Burns Lake

Burns Lake has identified a new COVID-19 case after not seeing any for five weeks.

The last COVID-19 case that was identified was during the June 6 to 12 period.

The region’s daily case rate has been increased to 0.1 to 5 per 100,000 people.

Meanwhile, the Smithers Local Health Area has not seen a single case of COVID-19 in two months.

As for vaccination rates 65% of community members 12 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in both the Smithers LHA and Burns Lake LHA.

Additionally, 68% of community members in Smithers and Burns Lake 18 and older have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

As of July 20, over 13 thousand doses of a COVID-19 dose have been administered in the Smithers area with 48% of the town population and 41% of the rural population fully vaccinated.

Within the Northwest, only two cases were identified in the region including one in Upper Skeena.

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Lindsay Newman
Lindsay Newman
News Reporter Lindsay joined the MyBulkleyLakesNow news team in 2019. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario where she then moved to Toronto to complete Journalism school at Humber College where she graduated in 2017. Lindsay started her news journey at 680 News- Toronto's largest talk radio station. Lindsay then moved on to 680 News, where she was an audio editor. She has always loved the idea of living in British Columbia since she was a teenager and was excited to make the to move out to Smithers, BC to branch out her journalism skills. In Lindsay's spare time she is usually relaxing with her two cats and in the warmer months going on hikes with her friends and partner.

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