A COVID-19 outbreak at Burnaby’s largest daycare facility that was triggered by a pub trivia night has been declared over by Fraser Health.
In all, the outbreak at the SFU Childcare Society on Burnaby Mountain involved 28 cases spread between children, staff and family members.
B.C. health officials recently revealed new details of how the pub trivia night led to the exposure of nearly 300 people – including those at the SFU Childcare Centre, as well as industrial sites, a restaurant, a store and the isolation of entire class at a local school.
“From just one COVID-19 positive person at a pub trivia night…” begins the infographic, before detailing how and where 296 were forced to self-isolate at home.
Over the last few weeks, health officials made veiled references to an unnamed pub trivia night in Port Moody which sparked a secondary outbreak at the SFU Childcare Society on Burnaby Mountain, and led to cases at workplaces and schools.
From the pub night, transmission chains break into three streams, according to the infographic. Two daycare staff are said to have gone to work after attending the trivia night, sparking infections among 27 people linked to the daycare, and another 15 secondary cases.
A second series of transmission events occurred in eight workplaces after people who attended the trivia night went to work sick. Those included: two industrial sites, two offices, a restaurant and a store.
Finally, contact tracers tracked a third chain of transmission among 10 people who had close contact with someone who attended the pub trivia night. Of those, one school staff member came to work sick, infecting a colleague and triggering the self-isolation of an entire class.
- With files from Stefan Labbe, Tri-City News
