Some good news from Chief Medical Officer of Health – Dr Jennifer Russell – this afternoon. Russell says the outbreak of COVID 19 at the Shannex Parkland campus in Millidgeville has been declared over. She says recent rounds of testing for both residents and staff have consistently come up negative.

The outbreak was declared near the end of November with a total of 50 confirmed cases of COVID affecting residents and staff at the complex over the last two months. Several residents died of complications including COVID during the outbreak.