Canada’s worst prison outbreak of COVID-19 has worsened again, according to B.C. health officials. An outbreak at the medium-security Mission Institution has grown to 48 cases, including seven people in hospital, provincial health officer Dr.
Bonnie Henry said Wednesday. The union representing correctional officers says that the number of correctional officers who had contracted the virus remained unchanged at six.
There are 155 corrections officers working at the Mission Institution. It has a capacity for 216 inmates at the medium security wing — the site of the outbreak — and 324 inmates at its minimum security wing. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] On Tuesday, the province announced that a