COVID-19 outbreaks at two more care homes, third Site C worker positive
Posted October 13, 2020 2:54 pm.
Last Updated October 13, 2020 4:46 pm.
SURREY (NEWS 1130) — COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared at two more care homes in the Lower Mainland, while a third Site C worker has tested positive for the coronavirus.
A staff member at PICS Assisted Living Facility in Surrey has tested positive and families have been told, according to the Fraser Health Authority.
Another staff member has come back with a positive test at the Chartwell Carrington House in Mission.
Both staff members are in self-isolation at home.
.@Fraserhealth reports 2 more #COVID19 outbreaks.
Workers at the P-I-C-S Assisted Living Facility and Chartwell Carrington House Retirement Residence have tested positive.
They’re isolating at home as contact tracing continues to see if anyone else has been exposed. @NEWS1130— Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) October 13, 2020
“Enhanced control measures have been put in place at each site,” says Fraser Health.
The third Site C employee who tested positive for COVID-19 worked at a camp in Fort St. John, according to BC Hydro.
The worker “is being cared for by the on-site health clinic,” adds Hydro, and will stay “quarantined in their room, which is in a separate dormitory and away from other workers, until they are medically cleared to leave.”
A third #SiteC worker has #COVID19.@bchydro confirms someone at a work camp in Fort St. John has tested positive.
Contact tracing over the long weekend led to another contract worker being asked to isolate.
BC Hydro reports no cases confirmed since January are related. @NEWS1130— Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) October 13, 2020
BC Hydro says the three Site C cases are not related.
Meanwhile, the outbreaks at Evergreen Hamlets and Cherington Place — long-term care facilities in Surrey — has been declared over.
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Outbreaks are now active at 16 long-term care or assisted living facilities, while three acute care units had active outbreaks.
As of Friday, B.C. has recorded 10,185 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, as well as 245 deaths.