Fraser Health declares COVID-19 outbreak at Good Samaritan Delta View Care Centre
Posted October 1, 2021 1:26 pm.
Last Updated October 1, 2021 1:57 pm.
DELTA (NEWS 1130) — Fraser Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Good Samaritan Delta View Care Centre after one resident and one staff member tested positive. Both of them are self-isolating at home.
Good Samaritan Delta View Care Centre is a long-term facility in Delta owned and operated by The Good Samaritan Society. Fraser Health is working with the site to implement health and control measures and identify anyone who may have been exposed.
In a statement online, they say they have implemented cleaning, restricted social visits, staffing increases, and testing, as well as screening of staff and residents.
“During this time, Fraser Health has additional presence at the site to take any further actions required and support the facility,” it reads. “This includes dedicated people to address quality, answer questions from staff, residents and family, and provide active checks of symptoms with staff and residents.”
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Clinical nurse educators, infection prevention and control experts, and patient care quality officers are some of the folks who will be working in the facility.
The health authority says “it is critically important for people living in the Fraser Health region to get tested as soon as you have COVID-19-like symptoms, even mild ones.” More information about test collection centres is available on the Fraser Health website.
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, says the Delta variant is moving the goalposts on the rate of vaccination to reach herd immunity from COVID-19. She would like to see all age groups at least 80 per cent fully vaccinated as soon as possible to fight the surge in COVID-19 cases affecting the entire country, including long-term care facilities, which have seen several outbreaks this year.
