Toronto's SickKids Hospital has declared an outbreak of Covid-19.
According to CTV, a recent patient, his parents, and one health care worker have tested positive for the virus. Another patient has also tested positive but that case is not connected to the previous patient.
"SickKids has previously restricted visitors to one adult caregiver per patient in an attempt to limit COVID-19 and has begun screening patients and visitors for symptoms upon arrival," CTV reports.
SickKids is sharing two COVID-19 updates. We have an outbreak of COVID-19 on an inpatient unit specializing in heamatology/oncology (8B). The patient diagnosed with COVID-19 on the weekend continues to be the only patient connected to this outbreak.
— SickKids_TheHospital (@SickKidsNews) April 28, 2020
SickKids released a statement that read: "The ensuing headlines of an outbreak at SickKids will no doubt be alarming to many, but it is important to know that the Toronto Public Health definition of outbreak has a very low threshold given that we are all learning about this organism.
"There is no higher priority for us than your safety, and that of our patients and families. As soon as we received the positive test result for our staff member, many teams at SickKids came together to mobilize a response and implement enhanced infection prevention and control measures.
"These are challenging times for all of us, even more so for our colleagues, who will be working under extraordinary circumstances."
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