There’s been a cluster of six positive cases of COVID-19 at the Meno Ya Win Health Center in Sioux Lookout.
All six were staff members, but did not have any symptoms.
Heather Lee is the CEO of the hospital says they found the cases as a result of routine testing.
“We, at this point, had really done about a third of our staff surveillance,” says Lee.
“And that was done as a result of just some anxiety folks had and potential for contacts out in the community.”
Lee says the positive cases were among the 147 tests that were conducted, and the results just came in on Sunday.
She says unfortunately they had to put their visitor restrictions back in place.
“We’re really making sure we clamp down again on visitor restrictions. We had started to just begin to expand a little bit and unfortunately with this we decided that we need to put the visitor restrictions we had from the beginning.”
Dr John Guilfoyle from the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority and says in each case, the person that test positive for the virus was asymptomatic.
“We really have had no illness associated thus far. But having said all of that, we are not taking this without some great deal of concern.”
