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It can test 1,000 people daily.Īnyone testing positive after shopping or working at the Costco will be placed in isolation, as will anyone with whom they have since come into contact. The testing centre is located in the parking lot of the Place Fleur-de-Lys shopping centre on Wilfrid-Hamel Blvd.
The next issue of Montreal Gazette Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Other counties are doing worse San Francisco has reported 180 cases in the last two weeks for every 100,000 of its residents San Diego County, 207 Sacramento County, 217 Orange County, 249 Ventura County, 252 Riverside County, 355 Los Angeles County, 380 San Bernardino, 479 Fresno, 530 and Kern, 1,284.Įlsewhere in the Bay Area, San Mateo County has reported a rate of 139 cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks Alameda County, 152 Contra Costa County, 207 and Marin County, 329. Santa Clara County has reported a rate of 140 new cases of the coronavirus in the last two weeks for every 100,000 of its residents that’s above the state’s goal of having counties have no more than 100 new cases in a two-week period for every 100,000 residents. Officials on Tuesday began testing Costco employees at the San Jose store on Senter Street, but those results were not immediately available. Any workplace with three or more cases prompts an investigation by the county. “It’s pretty much the same as our community-wide rates of infection and positivity,” Fenstersheib said. Each Costco has about 300 to 400 employees, Fenstersheib said. The number of cases reported among these Costco workers is in line with what officials expect with the percentage of cases in the general community. The cases were reported to the county by Costco after workers reported their diagnoses to the company.įrontline workers are generally at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus, and county officials recommend they be tested on a regular basis.Ĭases were also reported at Costco’s locations in San Jose on Senter Road, southeast of downtown, with eight cases between July 17-22 Gilroy, with six cases between July 24-30 and Mountain View, with four cases between July 15-29.įenstersheib said it was probably not necessary that customers who were at the stores in that period to be tested or to quarantine themselves, unless there are other reasons they feel it’s appropriate to do so. Costco is expected to gain sales and market share as US shoppers stock. According to the memo, the employee last worked Oct. Costco is poised to dominate amid heightened panic over the coronavirus outbreak, UBS says. But we still remind everybody to always wear your mask, and keep your social distance, in any retail stores, including Costco,” Fenstersheib said. A worker at the Costco in Port Coquitlam has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal memo seen by the Tri-City News. We feel that the public is totally safe in continuing to shop at Costco. “We feel like they are following guidelines. None of the Costco stores have been closed, and inspectors found the stores to be clean and found people inside to be wearing masks and practicing social distancing, Fenstersheib said. Costco is expected to gain sales and market share as US shoppers stock up on essentials in anticipation of a wider coronavirus outbreak, according to UBS. Marty Fenstersheib, the Santa Clara County COVID-19 testing officer, told reporters.Ī preliminary investigation indicated that Costco has complied with social distancing and other health and safety protocols in areas for customers officials did, however, make suggestions on improvements to employee-only areas. It’s likely those infected contracted the virus not at Costco, but elsewhere in the community, Dr. Health officials are investigating after 31 people who work at four Costco stores in Silicon Valley contracted the coronavirus.
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