Oliver, B.C., where more than 50 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, died from COVID-19 complications over the weekend.Interior Health confirmed the death to Global News on Tuesday.
IH would not release the person’s identity, but said a woman in her 70s died inside the care home.“We are sad to report a COVID-19-related death in Interior Health of a resident in long-term care at McKinney Place in Oliver,” IH President Susan Brown said in a press release.“This has been our most challenging long-term care outbreak and we offer our condolences to the family and the caregivers.”The death was the seventh in the Interior Health region.