VANCOUVER A COVID-19 outbreak that killed two residents of a retirement home in B.C. s Interior is now over, according to the local health authority. Interior Health announced the end of the outbreak at Sandalwood Retirement Resort in Kelowna on Saturday. “I want to thank the staff and community for their dedication during this outbreak.” said Susan Brown, Interior Health s president and CEO, in a news release. “On behalf of Interior Health, I extend our condolences to the family of the two residents who passed away during the outbreak.” The outbreak was declared on April 22 after 11 residents and one staff member at the independent living facility tested positive for the coronavirus.
May 14, 2021 - 3:11 PM The death toll due to COVID-19 at the Spring Valley Care Centre in Kelowna has climbed to seven as of today. But Interior Health’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Albert de Villiers, cast doubts on how many of those deaths – and many others in the province – are actually due to COVID-19. “If somebody dies while they have got COVID in the hospital or in the community, they’re counted as a COVID death,” he said during a news briefing today, May 14. “So, if I’m 89 years old, I tested positive for COVID on Tuesday, on Wednesday I die of a heart attack or I have palliative cancer and on Thursday I die because of the cancer, it’s still going to be counted as a COVID death at that point because I had COVID.”
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