Eleven patients and five staff members have now tested positive for COVID-19 following an outbreak at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital — an outbreak that has sparked concern among three unions representing health-care workers. She said CUPE learned Tuesday that additional positive cases had been detected in the E5 unit, and the same number of people or more would need to be tested. "We're not getting the proper information provided to us on who is getting COVID-19 positive, who are actually going for tests." 2nd outbreak at Winnipeg hospitalThis is the second outbreak at a Winnipeg hospital since the pandemic began. According to an epidemiology report, 16 staff members, five patients and four close contacts of cases were linked to the HSC outbreak.

Source: CBC News October 21, 2020 17:34 UTC