VANCOUVER A food processing plant in the Fraser Health region has been ordered to close after nearly two dozen staff members recently tested positive for COVID-19. The health authority issued a notice Sunday about Grand River Foods, a processing plant on Wheel Avenue in Abbotsford. To date, 22 employees of the facility have tested positive for COVID-19 as part of this outbreak, a notice issued by Fraser Health says. Case and contact management is ongoing. Those identified as cases and close contacts have been instructed to self-isolate. Fraser Health says it first identified a cluster of cases on Feb. 2 and the outbreak was declared on Feb. 19. The site was last inspected on Feb. 18 and the site has since been ordered to close.
B.C. has added 509 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 to its total, and nine deaths, health officials announced Friday in their last pandemic update of the week.
B.C. passed the 60,000-person threshold for COVID-19 infections on January 15, as health officials detected 509 new cases, pushing the total number of infections in B.C. to 60,117. The number of . . .
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