It was the fax that changed everything. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. We were surprised.
A couple of days earlier, one of the 120 residents experiencing possible symptoms of COVID-19 was tested. The symptoms disappeared the next day.
Then the fax arrived. We now had COVID in our building, Rohm says. The second case came shortly after. Then it ramped up quickly. I ll never forget that gut-wrenching feeling when the case came back positive, says River East Personal Care Home administrator Kim Rohm, thinking back to Nov. 12. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press)
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Ray Revill calls over his fellow animal advocates, pointing excitedly to the gnawed coconut husk splayed out on Fraser Island’s “highway” a 120-kilometre stretch of beach usually teeming with holidaymakers at low tide.
After a bone-crunching drive along a softer inland track, it is a positive sign.
The group fear for the plight of the dingo population after bushfires burnt through more than 87,000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed island known as K gari by the Butchulla traditional owners.
While the fire was contained about a month ago, experts are still gauging the impact on the island s unique ecosystem, which includes tropical rainforests, ancient sand dunes and protected species including dingoes.
One of the natural wonders of the world, Fraser Island was hit by a bushfire that scorched more than half of the World Heritage-listed site. A month after the flames were contained, a small group takes a journey to the island paradise to assess the damage for themselves.