Several More Ontario Shoppers Workers Test Positive For COVID-19 In Just 2 Days

Over two-dozen employees got COVID-19 in Ontario recently.
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Over the course of the past two days, eight more Shoppers Drug Mart employees in Ontario were added to the growing list of staff who have contracted COVID-19.*

The eight new infections were announced on November 5 and 6, but Loblaw Companies Ltd. provides details about cases dating back several weeks.*

According to the company's data, around two dozen Shoppers workers have tested positive since October 24 in Ontario.

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22 Ontario Shoppers employees with COVID-19 since October 24

Most of the confirmed infections on November 5 and 6 were within the borders of the GTA.*

The drug mart chain has seen a rise in cases among employees this week.

On Tuesday, Shoppers reported that over a dozen of its employees had contracted COVID-19 since last week.

Yesterday, Ontario reported 998 new cases.

*Editor's note: This article has been updated.

  • Abby Neufeld was a writer at Narcity Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Communications at the University of Victoria. Her past work has been published in The Toronto Star, Bitch Media, Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, and more. In 2019, Abby co-founded The New Twenties, an environmentally-focused literary and arts magazine.

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