More employees of Loblaw-owned stores operating in Metro Vancouver have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Stores with newly-affected team members are located in Vancouver and North Vancouver in the Vancouver Coastal Health region and in Burnaby and New Westminster in the Fraser Health region.
Loblaw Companies Ltd updated its COVID-19 store case listing on Dec. 11 as follows:
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 610 6th Street, New Westminster: The last day the team member worked was on Nov. 30.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 333 Seymour Blvd., North Vancouver: The last day the team member worked was on Dec. 4.
- Real Canadian Superstore, 4700 Kingsway, Burnaby: Two team members tested positive for COVID-19. The last day the team members each worked was on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.
- Shoppers Drug Mart, 4326 Dunbar Street, Vancouver: The last day the team member worked was on Dec. 5.
There is one other store in British Columbia operated by Loblaw that is reporting a new employee coronavirus case. Shoppers Drug Mart at 5500 Sunshine Coast Highway in Sechelt has a team member who tested positive for COVID-19 who last worked Dec. 8.
T & T Supermarket and Sobeys Inc. have not reported any new cases for B.C. stores in the last day.
Current COVID-19 cases in B.C.
On Thursday, officials confirmed a new 723 cases of coronavirus in the province. Of those new cases, 135 are in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, and 456 in the Fraser Health region.
B.C. also set a grim new record, with 28 new COVID-19-related deaths from Wednesday to Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths from the virus in the province to 587.
With files from Elana Shepert and Glen Korstrom
