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Island Health has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 at the Victoria General Hospital in two rooms of the general medicine unit on the fourth floor.
The health authority says in a statement that two patients have tested positive.
Once the first patient was identified as a positive case, Island Health implemented isolation, enhanced cleaning, and contact tracing precautions, then identified the second case through follow-up testing.
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Only essential visitors will be allowed in these two rooms at this time.
The rest of the hospital is operating normally, only these two rooms are impacted.
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