The Northwestern Health Unit is declaring a workplace outbreak at Walmart in Dryden.
This means there are at least two cases of COVID-19 in the workplace, and health officials can’t rule out that transmissions happened in the workplace, and that there is a chance that others may have been exposed.
Follow up includes:
-Contacting all positive cases to make sure they self-isolate and find out if they had any close contacts during the time they were infectious.
-Contacting all people identified as close contacts of the positive cases to provide them with support, ask them to self-isolate, and arrange testing
-Working with the workplace to prevent further transmission
All individuals who had high risk exposure to COVID-19 have been notified and given specific
instructions.
Management at Walmart in Dryden say they are following the direction of the health unit and stress required sanitization and cleaning protocols continue as usual.
The store remains open at this time and officials say they will follow further instruction from health officials.
Though the risk to the public remains low, anyone who shopped at Walmart Dryden between March 9 and March 27, who has developed cold or flu like symptoms may have been infected with COVID-19 without knowing it.
If you or anyone in your household has developed even one symptom, the whole household must self-isolate and the person with symptoms should get tested.
If you developed symptoms during this time that have improved or resolved you should isolate for 10 days after symptom onset and still consider getting tested.
Contact the Dryden assessment centre for an appointment at 223-3737 or assess@drhc.on.ca.
