Coronavirus: B.C. expected to announce rules on visiting long-term care homes
Amy Judd
1 hour ago
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A worker is seen closing the curtains at the Lynn Valley Care
Centre in North Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, March 25, 2020.
The
province is expected to announce new rules on Tuesday to allow
people to visit their loved ones in long-term care homes for the
first time in months since the coronavirus
pandemic
took hold.
Long-term
care homes have been closed to non-essential visits since mid-March
when an outbreak was declared at North Vancouver's Lynn Valley Care
Centre, which became the centre of B.C.’s first major
COVID-19
outbreak as 20 residents fatally contracted the virus.
Provincial
health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has said that resuming
non-essential visits will depend on the availability of staff and
personal protective equipment.
Read
more: List
of seniors’ homes and health-care facilities at centre of B.C.’s
coronavirus outbreak
On
Monday, health officials reported 26 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C.
over the past three days and no new deaths.
There
are 2,904 confirmed cases of the disease in the province. Of those,
2,577 patients have fully recovered, or about 89 per cent.
B.C.
now has just 153 active cases. Eighteen patients are in hospital,
with five of them in intensive care.
The
province’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 174.
-with
files from Jon Azpiri
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