A B.C. First Nations community is going under lockdown after being visited by a recently released inmate who later tested positive for COVID-19.
Tl’etinox Chief Joe Alphonse said the man had been recently released from the Mission Institution and was being escorted by a volunteer to a halfway house in Prince George when he stopped in the community to visit a family member.
The community is about 100 kilometres west of Williams Lake and a part of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation. Alphonse said he was notified Tuesday by Northern Health that the man had tested positive, adding that the man’s contacts have all now been isolated.