VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — One other care dwelling in Metro Vancouver has applied outbreak management measures after a workers member examined optimistic for COVID-19.
Relations of seniors dwelling on the Royal Arch Masonic Dwelling in Vancouver have been notified no residents have examined optimistic, however an investigation is underway.
The letter from a medical well being officer with the Vancouver Coastal Well being Authority says enhanced measures are in impact.
“Out of an abundance of warning, outbreak management measures have been put in place at Royal Arch Masonic Dwelling. This will likely lead to some residents being confined to their rooms, together with throughout mealtimes. You may additionally discover restrictions to group actions, and non-essential providers,” the letter reads. “These precautions stop the unfold of respiratory sicknesses, and are customary approaches utilized in care services throughout seasonal Influenza outbreaks.”
A daughter of a senior now confined to her room on the Champlain Heights complicated says she’s frightened about her mom presumably being uncovered.
She’s shared a letter with us from Dr. John Harding notifying her an investigation is underway.
The daughter, who doesn’t need to be named, says her foremost concern is discovering out if the workers member who examined optimistic labored on her mother’s flooring.
She says the final time she visited her mom was March 15, two days earlier than the ability with almost 200 residents was locked all the way down to hold guests from bringing the virus inside.
The letter she obtained from Harding states seniors who develop signs shall be remoted and people who don’t shall be monitored.
NEWS 1130 has reached out to directors on the care dwelling, in addition to Vancouver Coastal Well being for extra particulars.
No less than 12 long-term care properties within the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Well being areas have confirmed circumstances of COVID-19.
Provincial Well being Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported Saturday many of the 17 deaths have been seniors at these services.
Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver has been the centre of 1 outbreak, the place seven seniors have died.
These older than 65 and folks with compromised immune techniques or underlying medical circumstances are at elevated danger of experiencing extreme problems if they’re uncovered.
Canadians are being instructed to proceed self-isolation and bodily distancing to flatten the curve and forestall the unfold of COVID-19.
As of three:00 p.m. Saturday, 884 confirmed circumstances have been recorded in British Columbia.
-With recordsdata from Nikitha Martins