Two cases of COVID-19 have been isolated at a Coquitlam poultry plant as part of an ongoing outbreak, B.C.’s provincial health officer announced Thursday.
The outbreak at Superior Poultry Processing Ltd., first reported by The Tri-City News, was confirmed by Dr. Bonnie Henry in her daily COVID-19 briefing in which 27 other new cases were announced.
"There’s likely to be others in the new facility who are ill," said Henry.
British Columbia has now registered 1,824 test-positive cases of COVID-19. With four new deaths announced Thursday, the provincial death toll stands at 94.
The Coquitlam poultry plant was on lockdown Thursday morning as Fraser Health health workers continued to investigate the outbreak.
Owned by the same company, the factory is a sister plant with United Poultry Co. Ltd in Vancouver, where there are now 29 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
"There was some movement of people between both places," said Henry.
It is not clear when or if Superior Poultry will be shut down in the same way as its sister plant in Vancouver did.
That decision will be made by public health authorities based on information gathered by environmental health officers — those who are also tasked with inspecting restaurants.
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