Metro Vancouver grocery stores are reporting new employee coronavirus (COVID-19) cases Thursday, affecting workers at Safeways located within Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Coastal Health.
Sobeys, Inc, the parent company of Safeway, Thrifty Foods, and franchisor of discount grocery chain FreshCo, updated its online employee COVID-19 case tracker April 22 to include the following new B.C. store cases:
- Safeway - 780 2601 Westview Drive, North Vancouver: Store employee last worked April 15
- Safeway - 1611 Davie St, Vancouver: Store employee last worked April 18
The Safeway on Davie in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»previously reported an infected employee on April 13; that store worker last had a shift on April 10.
Neither Safeway location has been shut down by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Coastal Health or WorkSafeBC due to workplace COVID-19 cases.
On Wednesday, Sobeys also added to its store worker case roster an employee of its Safeway in Fort St. John, B.C.
Loblaw Companies Ltd, the parent company of Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart, and No Frills has not yet posted any new B.C. stores to its as of the morning of April 22.
While T&T Supermarket is owned by Loblaw, the Canadian Asian grocery chain lists its COVID-19 cases separately . However, T&T reports it has not had an employee infected with COVID-19 working a shift in over 14 days now and has removed the most recent case from the B.C. list.