Michelle Mensies’ heart sank when she found out Monday that her 77-year-old father tested positive for COVID-19. “I was horrified,” she said from her Calgary home on Tuesday.
Gerad Mensies lives at Clifton Manor, a long-term care facility in southeast Calgary. On Monday, families were informed eight residents and six staff members had tested positive for COVID-19.
The number of residents who tested positive increased to 10 on Tuesday. All residents affected live in the same unit and all have been relocated to the isolation ward at Clifton Manor for treatment. “It worries me because my dad has health problems as it is, and he can’t get better if there is case after case coming in after him, along with the other seniors who were in there