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A pharmacy worker at Walmart’s Baseline Road location has tested positive for COVID-19, and was serving the public during the period when they were considered to be contagious.
Anyone who spent 15 or more minutes receiving service at the Walmart pharmacy at 1375 Baseline Rd. between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Aug. 15 or Aug. 16 is being asked to immediately self-isolate and call Ottawa Public Health at 613-580-6744.
Public health officials will help determine if the exposure was high-risk and if testing is recommended. All affected employees have already been contacted by OPH.
Customers at this Walmart who didn’t use the pharmacy or who did so outside the specified hours “are not considered at higher risk of exposure from this occurrence,” according to a public bulletin from the City of Ottawa.
In the city, meanwhile, there are currently 190 active cases of COVID-19, according to Ottawa Public Health, including 13 people in hospital, with one in ICU.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,893 confirmed cases have been identified in Ottawa’s population and 266 people have died from the disease.
Six local institutions are battling active outbreaks of the virus.
On Wednesday, the city introduced amendments to its mask bylaw in order to help further reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Customers at this Walmart who didn’t use the pharmacy or who did so outside the specified hours “are not considered at higher risk of exposure from this occurrence."
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