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Second B.C. care home reports coronavirus cases as officials prepare for worse
VANCOUVER
The Canadian Press
Published 50 minutes ago
Updated March 12, 2020
ENNIFER GAUTHIER/Reuters
A resident and a worker at a retirement home in West Vancouver have both tested positive for COVID-19, marking the spread of the novel coronavirus to a second care home in British Columbia.
The new cases come as several major events were cancelled across British Columbia, while local officials and service providers say they have preparedness plans in place even as the risk of transmission remains low.
Dr. Rhonda Collins, chief medical officer for owner-operator Revera Living, says the cases were confirmed at the Hollyburn House today.
Collins says in a statement the resident of the care unit has been isolated and is receiving treatment, while the employee is now at home in self-isolation.
She says Revera has implemented full pandemic protocols across its Canadian operations and began active screening at its British Columbia locations this past weekend.
The two new cases bring the provincial total to at least 48 and follow a provincial announcement on Wednesday of enhanced screening at long-term facilities across after six health-care workers and two residents at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver were diagnosed with the virus...
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Source: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-n...el-coronavirus
...There’s an outbreak at a second long-term care home in West Vancouver, the Revera Hollyburn House Retirement Residence, Dr. Henry said. A man in his 90s who lives there tested positive for COVID-19, as did two health care workers.
The two staff also worked at the Lynn Valley Care Centre, where BC’s first local outbreak of COVID-19 occurred.
There’s also been another case of community transmission, Dr. Henry said. A man in his 50s is sick with the virus, and officials can’t trace his case to travel or contact with another known COVID-19 case.
The final three new cases are all linked to travel. A couple in their 40s got sick after a Nile River cruise in Egypt, and a man contracted the virus while travelling in the UK....
Second B.C. care home reports coronavirus cases as officials prepare for worse
VANCOUVER
The Canadian Press
Published 50 minutes ago
Updated March 12, 2020
ENNIFER GAUTHIER/Reuters
A resident and a worker at a retirement home in West Vancouver have both tested positive for COVID-19, marking the spread of the novel coronavirus to a second care home in British Columbia.
The new cases come as several major events were cancelled across British Columbia, while local officials and service providers say they have preparedness plans in place even as the risk of transmission remains low.
Dr. Rhonda Collins, chief medical officer for owner-operator Revera Living, says the cases were confirmed at the Hollyburn House today.
Collins says in a statement the resident of the care unit has been isolated and is receiving treatment, while the employee is now at home in self-isolation.
She says Revera has implemented full pandemic protocols across its Canadian operations and began active screening at its British Columbia locations this past weekend.
The two new cases bring the provincial total to at least 48 and follow a provincial announcement on Wednesday of enhanced screening at long-term facilities across after six health-care workers and two residents at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver were diagnosed with the virus...
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Source: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-n...el-coronavirus
...There’s an outbreak at a second long-term care home in West Vancouver, the Revera Hollyburn House Retirement Residence, Dr. Henry said. A man in his 90s who lives there tested positive for COVID-19, as did two health care workers.
The two staff also worked at the Lynn Valley Care Centre, where BC’s first local outbreak of COVID-19 occurred.
There’s also been another case of community transmission, Dr. Henry said. A man in his 50s is sick with the virus, and officials can’t trace his case to travel or contact with another known COVID-19 case.
The final three new cases are all linked to travel. A couple in their 40s got sick after a Nile River cruise in Egypt, and a man contracted the virus while travelling in the UK....
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