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Within a week, there were 4 new CASES of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, adding a death and a high-profile case at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, where citizens were involved in the spread of the network.
CBC News has made repeated requests and proposals to report as many details as possible about such cases, but the data have been inconsistent and infrequently incorrect.
After Friday’s revelation through Labrador-Grenfell Health’s executive director, Heather Brown, that there was no official plan to tell an employee from the outside the Atlantic bubble, CBC continually requested an interview with Health Minister John Haggie that was unavailable. Monday morning.
On Saturday afternoon, CBC news detected a challenge on the provincial government’s COVID-19 follow-up website. The site, which is updated before 3 p. m. , was not updated at that time.
In addition, there is a line of text on the page indicating that the online page will be up to date before 3 p. m. missing from the site.
When the site nevertheless changed, she indicated that there were no new instances in Newfoundland and Labrador. When CBC asked the Department of Health to check zero, spokeswoman Kathy Dicks-Peyton told CBC that the numbers were accurate.
Less than 20 mins later, at 5:08 p. m. , the Department of Health issued a saying that in fact, there had been a new case: a guy in his 60s who died Thursday in the Western Health Region.
At 7:15 p. m. on Sunday, the fitness branch issued a statement: A woguy from the Western Health Region had also tested positive. Health officials said the two instances are related, as the boy and woguy traveled from somewhere in Central Africa.
At Happy Valley-Goose Bay, other people queued for hours for a COVID-19 check on Thursday after the Department of Health announced that a woman who tested positive had visited two outlets in the city.
The woman is a saskatchewan painter who traveled to the province with an exemption to paint at the Labrador Health Center.
According to the provincial government’s self-de-insulation waiver order, staff are not required to isolate themselves before starting to paint in the province; However, it should be isolated when it is not in the paint.
On social media, public outrage overflowed: other people asked why someone outdoors in the Atlantic bubble allowed painting in that province and called for harsh sanctions against women.
“The demands are there for a reason: for everyone,” Health Minister John Haggie said Thursday at a news convention.
“[If there have been] significant violations of the requirements, there will have to be consequences. There are no two tactics to do that.
Less than 12 hours later, labrador-Grenfell Health’s CEO stated that the employee had not been informed of the rules.
“We have a procedure on when we bring in other people. However, in this specific case, we must be transparent and acknowledge that there is a communication error,” Heather Brown told CBC Radio’s Labrador Morning.
“[This] led this specific fitness care employee not to fully perceive what was needed. We look in combination with our organization and identify opportunities to ensure that we are informed of this specific case and the procedure to ensure that the procedure works will never happen again. “
Brown went on to say that there is no “formalized plan” within the physical fitness authority to supply groceries and other essential items to staff who, under physical fitness orders, cannot make their own purchases. She said that at least one local store offering delivery, however, is not transparent if the woman reported this service.
For years, Labrador-Grenfell Health relied on the flight staff corps to fill key positions. It is not known how many physical care staff members have come from outside the Atlantic bubble since the beginning of the pandemic, if they are informed of the regulations. in Newfoundland and Labrador, or if they are receiving data on how to buy necessities.
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