Coronavirus: Outbreak declared at South Okanagan retirement home “There is nothing I could say to describe how concerned I am about this,” Oliver mayor Martin Johansen told Global News on Dec.
15. This has got to be the worst case scenario that I could imagine.”Seventeen people, all residents, died after contracting COVID-19 in just over a month.A total of 55 out of the 59 residents ended up getting infected at the IHA-operated facility.Twenty-three staff members also tested positive for the virus.The outbreak was declared over on Jan.
18.“The COVID-19 outbreak at McKinney Place was one of Interior Health’s most challenging outbreaks and we are grateful it has been declared over,” IHA stated in an email to Global News Monday.IHA recently.