Six more people in B.C. have tested positive for COVID-19, including two residents at a long-term care home, provincial health officials have confirmed.
Six more people in B.C. have tested positive for COVID-19, including two residents at a long-term care home, provincial health officials have confirmed.
Two residents at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver are infected. The facility is now considered the site of an outbreak, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Saturday. The virus spread after a worker contracted the virus earlier this week.
Another pair were infected while aboard a previous cruise on the Grand Princess and are now back in the province. The other two new infections are related to travel from Iran.
“We are by no means near the end of this,” said Henry. “We’ve seen the progression around the world, we’ve seen what’s happened in other communities, and we’re preparing as best we can for that.”
The province is now advising all British Columbians to avoid travelling on cruise ships.
Care home investigation
The province has deployed resources to investigate the outbreak at Lynn Valley Care Centre. Staff from Vancouver Coastal Health have been at the facility for the last three days as part of the province’s outbreak response.
The coronavirus spread into the care home through a worker who is infected. She was the province’s first case of community transmission.
“This is one of the scenarios that we have been most concerned about,” said Henry,