Just days after declaring a COVID-19 outbreak at Burnaby Hospital over, health officials say there has been a new outbreak in another unit.
Fraser Health said Wednesday that nine patients in a medicine unit have tested positive for the virus. The last outbreak was declared over Feb. 1.
The new outbreak is limited to a single medicine unit, which has been closed to new admissions, the health authority said.
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The hospital has also implemented enhanced cleaning and contact tracing for all staff and patients who were potentially exposed, it said.
Unit patients and their families have been notified.
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The hospital and its emergency department remained open to patients, and other areas of the facility remained unaffected, Fraser Health said.
As of Wednesday, B.C. was battling COVID-19 outbreaks in nine different hospitals.
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