Paramedics transport a person from Roberta Place, a long-term seniors care facility which is the site of a coronavirus in Barrie, Ont., on Jan. 18, 2021.The United Kingdom variant of COVID-19 has been identified at a nursing home in Ontario, where all but three residents have tested positive for the coronavirus and 29 have died.
“The rapid spread, high attack rate and the devastating impact on residents and staff at Roberta Place long-term care home has been heartbreaking for all,” Charles Gardner, the health unit’s medical officer of health said in a statement.The health unit said on Wednesday that preliminary laboratory testing of the six swabs identified a high likelihood it was an unidentified variant of concern. The second test determined that it was the variant from the U.K., known as UK B117.
The outbreak at Roberta Place began on Jan. 8 after a staff member tested positive during routine surveillance testing. The staffer was in close contact with someone who travelled internationally, but not to the United Kingdom, Brazil or South Africa. The staffer’s swab was one of six that contains the U.K. variant.
It’s WuhanVirusVariant!
If you keep buying they will Keep selling. When was the last time you heard of someone dying of old Age.
Why can we call it the U.K. variant, but calling it the China virus is racist?
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