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7:15 a.m. – Fraser Health declares outbreak over at Baillie House, while new outbreak declared at KinVillage
An outbreak at Maple Ridge’s Baillie House care home has been declared over, while a new outbreak has been declared at South Delta’s KinVillage, according to Fraser Health.
At the KinVillage outbreak, three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. The outbreak has been confined to the long-term care building and is not connected to an outbreak declared on Jan. 3 in the assisted living building.
The staff members at now in self-isolation at home.
KinVillage is a campus of assisted living, long term care and independent living homes for seniors.
7 a.m. – Vancouver firm to distribute COVID-19 blood purification machine in Canada
A Vancouver company has won the right to distribute a U.S. blood purification machine now approved by Health Canada to treat COVID-19 patients in critical condition.
Last week, the U.S. company CytoSorbents announced it had won a medical device authorization from Health Canada to allow its “extracorporeal blood purification” machine into Canadian hospitals.
CytoSorbents CEO Vincent Capponi said the company would work closely with Vancouver’s Ebbtide Medical to deploy its CytoSorb blood purification system in hospitals throughout Canada.
CytoSorbents — a New Jersey company — has a blood purification technology that prior to COVID-19 had been used to treat over 100,000 critically ill and cardiac surgery cases. The process requires a blood transfusion so is only used in people who are in critical condition.
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