Edmonton's Cross Cancer Institute has declared a COVID-19 outbreak on one of its units, closed the unit to new patient admissions, and put the entire facility on "watch" status, CBC News has learned. "Inpatient Unit 40 is being declared on outbreak and Units 30 & 31 [are] on Watch status," the memo continues. Butts warned that a COVID-19 outbreak affecting a significant number of Cross Cancer Institute staff "would jeopardize the delivery of cancer care" to patients in the northern half of the province. Joffe conceded more than 140 Cross Cancer employees, and five oncologists, had received the vaccine due to a unit classification error. Cross Cancer staff were initially included in Phase 2C of the vaccine rollout, which is expected to begin in May, provided there is enough supply.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2021 21:00 UTC