A Port Coquitlam Safeway has been hit with a second COVID-19 case in its store in less than two weeks.
The store, located at 1100-2850 Shaughnessy Street, announced the positive case among its staff on March 16. The last day the employee is said to have worked was on Sunday, March 14.
The store's parent company, Sobeys, last reported a positive case of COVID-19 among the Port Coquitlam store's staff on March 5.
The latest grocery store case comes after Fraser Health announced it was vaccinating an undisclosed number of workers at a Port Coquitlam Costco down the road after “a significant cluster” of cases was discovered.
Fraser Health was at the store over the weekend testing and immunizing workers in response to the cluster, according to the health authority, which covers the Tri-Cities.
"We are taking an aggressive management approach which includes expanded testing and immunization in order to prevent an outbreak,” wrote a spokesperson for Fraser Health.
—With files from Diane Strandberg
