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Interior Health is investigating the first COVID-19 outbreak in the region among a group of foreign temporary workers at a garden center in West Kelowna.
Dr. Sue Pollock, Interior Health’s medical health officer, gave Bylands Nurseries Ltd. a quarantine order on March 27 after the virus was confirmed within the group.
There are 75 people involved – 63 migrant workers and 12 local workers. All are self-isolating.
At this point, there were 14 positive COVID-19 test results related to the outbreak. Further results are still pending.
Workers are said to remain in quarantine on the property until Pollock suggests another direction. You live on site in dormitories that enable safe self-isolation.
The medical health officer is confident that the risk of exposure to the public is low. There were no people in roles interacting with customers, and the group had minimal contact with the community.
Bylands Nurseries has taken various measures on behalf of Pollock, including improving the cleaning of all kindergartens, apartments, sanitary facilities and other facilities that employees access, as well as denying access to all website visitors.
Bylands Garden Center, a standalone company, is not affected by the order but has opted to close it voluntarily.
The cases may be linked to a group of workers who came to Kelowna from outside Canada on March 12, according to Interior Health.
Kelowna Capital News reached out to Bylands Nurseries for comment.
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