VANCOUVER – One of BC’s largest care home events of COVID-19 is now officially over.
The uprising at Royal City Manor, a long-term care home in New Westminster, began on January 3 and quickly grew to include dozens of residents and workers. .
On March 3, the outbreak was responsible for 133 cases of coronavirus. A total of 102 residents were infected, and 31 died, according to data from the BC Center for Disease Control.
On Sunday night, Fraser Health announced in a press release that the behavior had been announced.
“By implementing holistic strategies to prevent and respond to COVID-19 in care facilities, COVID-19 cases no longer exist at this location,” the health authority said in the news. aige.
The end of the Royal City Manor revolution means that there are no longer active incidents with more than 100 cases of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in BC
The largest ongoing revolution in a long-term care home in the province is now the one at Acropolis Manor in Prince Rupert, where 57 people tested positive and 14 residents has died, as is the latest BCCDC update.
Health officials have rebuked the decline in the number and severity of outbreaks in care homes in the province in recent months due to too many COVID-19 vaccines in the past. the system. By mid-February, about 91 percent of long-term care residents had received at least one dose of vaccine.
At the same time, hospital breakdowns are less frequent in 2021.
On Saturday, a revolution was declared at Kelowna General Hospital, where an unrelated individual behavior was already underway in a separate unit.
On Sunday, Inside Health announced that the earlier uprising, in unit 4B, had ended. A total of seven people – six patients and one staff member – tested positive for COVID-19 in relation to that behavior. Two of the patients died.
“I would like to thank the team at KGH for their efforts in curbing this uprising and preventing the spread of hospitalization,” said the president of Side Health. interior and CEO Susan Brown in a press release Sunday.
“We extend our condolences to the families of the two deceased patients and will work just as hard to embrace the second uprising announced on March 6,” Brown said.