The Merritt area’s new weekly cases of COVID-19 continues to be on a downward trend, with only two positives confirmed for the week of April 25-May 1.
The region continues to see one of the lowest cases per 100,000 population rate of the virus. The only surrounding regions with loss of a case per population rate were South Cariboo and Lillooet, who both registered zero new cases.
This marks a steady decline over the last four weeks for Merritt, from 15, to five, to three, and now two.
In the regions surrounding the Merritt area, the Summerland area was hit the hardest by far, more than doubling from one week to another from 12 cases to 28. They and Golden are the only regions in the Interior currently with an average daily rate of 20 cases per 100,000 people.
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According to Stemete7uw’i Friendship Centre President Murray Casey, there are only about 15 to 20 people in the South Cariboo speaking the Secwepemc language. He wants to grow that number.
Casey will be hosting an online workshop teaching people the Secwepemc language. “It’s the First Nations language from this area [100 Mile House] as far as Williams Lake and down to Kamloops, and down to the Salmon Arm area,” Casey explains, “It would be nice if anybody who wants to learn some of the Shuswap language or even some basic First Nation language, they’re more than welcome to.”
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