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Island Health has announced a new outbreak of COVID-19 at a long-term care home in Nanaimo, while another outbreak has been declared over.

Island Health said Monday the outbreaks at the Chartwell Malaspina long-term care home and at the transitional care unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have ended.

VICTORIA -- Two COVID-19 outbreaks in the Mid-Island have been declared over, Island Health announced Thursday. The outbreaks were located at Chartwell Malaspina Care Residence and the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH). The outbreak at Chartwell Malaspina was declared more than one month ago on Dec. 27. The virus spread to a total of seven residents and two staff members during that time, and claimed the lives of two residents. Now that the outbreak has been declared over, social visits are being permitted again, as well as admissions and transfers to the facility. Within the care...

“We have to manage our supply within the limited amounts we have. This weekend we found out the amounts we were expecting to receive in the first week of February have been dramatically reduced and we don’t know how much, if any, vaccine we’ll be receiving the following two weeks in February.” To compensate, the province is pushing out its timeline for the second dose to 42 days after the first. Public health also continues to monitor adverse reactions to the vaccinations. Dr. Henry said 56 reports were delivered to public health including 10 of anaphylaxis which is marginally higher ...