Health officials on Monday declared an outbreak of COVID-19 was over among temporary foreign workers at a nursery in West Kelowna, B.C.
Dr. Silvina Mema, medical health officer with the Interior Health Authority, said the 23 workers at Bylands Nurseries who tested positive for the novel coronavirus have recovered and the business can now fully reopen.
The outbreak was declared on March 28 after two workers were confirmed to have contracted the virus, prompting widespread testing at the worksite. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “The source of this outbreak is unclear.
We believe that some workers who came into Canada later in March may have been incubating the disease when they came in,” Mema told