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At least two nurses who worked at Résidence Herron in Dorval say they were being asked to work in unsafe conditions as the private retirement home became an epicentre of COVID-19 with dozens of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and over 30 deaths.
The nurses described their working conditions after Global News reported about internal documents released by the facility’s owner, Katasa, which revealed that two health-care staff with symptoms of COVID-19 continued to work in the building.
Both nurses would later test positive for the virus. One of the two believed that their own infection started a few days earlier, on March 22, after treating an infected patient.
This nurse said they were forced to bring in their own protective mask since the company didn’t provide one. |
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