Laurence Ménard, a 33-year-old social work technician in central Quebec, is the latest health-care worker to succumb to COVID-19 in the province.
In a statement published Tuesday, the APTS union representing professional and technical health services staff said Ménard worked for the community health clinic in Drummond, Que., and died “following complications due to COVID-19, contracted in the course of her employment.” The young woman from Acton Vale, Que., was a single mother to a young boy.
While an epidemiological investigation will be carried out to confirm the source, her family received confirmation that a coronavirus screening test came back positive.