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Officer at Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre dies after contracting COVID-19
Some Alberta convicts move to house arrest to mitigate COVID-19 risk: official “This is a very sad day for the union,” said Susan Slade, vice-president of AUPE. “We are thinking about this member, his family, friends and colleagues who are obviously devastated.”The union doesn’t know if he contracted the virus while at work.However, the facility has been experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak and is currently on Alberta Health’s outbreak list. Coronavirus: Where Alberta’s COVID-19 outbreaks are The union described the outbreak as “significant.”“We have been saying since the pandemic began that our members who work in the front lines are heroes,” Slade said.