An employee at the facility contracted the U.K. variant from a returning traveller who was quarantining in the same household. It quickly spread through the residence, infecting 220 people and killing 70 residents and one caregiver.
When the cases were classified by the local health unit, few, if any, were designated as being travel-related (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit noted 3,430 COVID cases between Dec. 20, 2020, and Feb. 28, only 48 of which were travel-related. Of the 48, only eight were from the 50-plus age group).
This makes a nonsense of the idea that Canada has reliable information on which to base border policy decisions. The Public Health Agency admits that not all jurisdictions report exposure history — hence its concession that cases attributable to travel are under-counted.
This is not a semantic point but one over which the government remains in denial.
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