Outbreak at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital over after no further cases
NANAIMO — Island Health has found no further evidence of COVID-19 transmission or active cases and declared the outbreak at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital over.
An outbreak was declared Nov. 11 when five members of the hospital’s transitional care unit contracted the virus. All were staff members and no patients were affected.
The unit was quickly isolated and contact tracing completed, which revealed no further evidence of transmission outside the unit.
Island Health said in a statement on Saturday, Nov. 21 “there are no longer any COVID-19 cases related to this outbreak at the site.” The unit has since re-opened.