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23 COVID-19 cases linked to Vaughan grocery store, York Region public health issues public notice

Workplace outbreak first declared May 12 after 14 Concord Food Centre employees tested positive for virus

Yorkregion.com
May 28, 2021
Lisa Queen

York Region public health is advising anyone who shopped at Concord Food Centre April 8 to May 21 to monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19 after 23 confirmed cases of the virus have been linked to the Vaughan supermarket.

Anyone experiencing symptoms should get tested at a COVID-19 testing centre.

Public health issued the public notice on May 26.

A workplace outbreak was declared at the store, at 1438 Centre St., on May 12, after 14 employees tested positive for COVID-19, Patrick Casey, a spokesperson for the Region of York, said in a statement.

Public Health staff have been in regular communication with the company, he said.

Public health conducted an onsite inspection of the grocery story on May 17 and said it continues to work with the company to identify additional cases and people who have come in close contact with them, Casey said.

So far, 23 cases associated with the store have been confirmed, including 18 from York Region, two from Peel Region, two from Toronto and one from Simcoe Muskoka, he said.

More than half of the cases occurred from April 9 to May 2 and most of the affected employees have since recovered, Casey said.