121 At CANADA Post test Positive for Covid-19

Canada Post says 121 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at a facility in Mississauga, Ont., since the start of the new year. A spokesman said testing was done on a voluntary basis at the site, where more than 4,500 people work, up until Tuesday. Phil Legault said that’s when Canada Post began mandatory testing of one shift of employees at the direction of Peel Public Health. He said the facility is able to keep operating. Legault said over the past 10 months, just over 1,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at Canada Post facilities, and noted there are 4,100 such facilities across the country. Public health officials have said the cases are “overwhelmingly” due to community transmission, he said, with workplace spread about two per cent of infections.