Langley Lodge sees two more COVID-19 deaths; outbreak now over at Mission medium-security prison
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📷 Health Minister Adrian Dix and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry provide an update on COVID-19 on May 28, 2020 / via Province of British Columbia
Two more people have died from COVID-19 at the Langley Lodge. 22 people have died there in less than two weeks since the outbreak began. The Fraser Health Authority has appointed a pandemic response director to coordinate efforts to bring it under control. Extra nurses and staff from Fraser Health have been called in to assist. 111 people of the 164 people who have died from the virus lived in long term care facilities.
Meanwhile, there have been nine new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the past 24 hours. None in Island Health. There is only one active case of the virus in our health region and 240 elsewhere in the province.
The Provincial Health officer says she's very happy the outbreak at the federal medium-security prison in Mission is now over. It had one of B.C.’s worst outbreaks with 120 inmates and a dozen guards who caught the virus. Dr. Bonnie Henry praised the work done by Fraser Health, in ensuring new protocols for infection control and prevention were put into place. Henry says their protocols have now been adopted by all federal prisons
There is good news for farmer's markets in BC. The provincial health officer has revised her order, to allow sales of non-food items. Dr. Henry's amendment means food can be consumed at sit down tables at the markets. She says the changes were made to align with the reopening of restaurants.
A special report by the BC Forest Practises Board says government needs to better protect sensitive salmon habitat from sediment from road construction. The Board looked at five watersheds in the province, including the Memekay watershed near Campbell River. That area scored well when it comes to current practises, but it says the watershed is still affected by clearcut logging that ended in the mid-1990. It says salmon streams are still at risk because of a lack of buffer zones and landslides which are the result of historic logging practises.
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