A GI outbreak was declared at Armstrong’s Pleasant Valley Manor Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (Google Maps)

A GI outbreak was declared at Armstrong’s Pleasant Valley Manor Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (Google Maps)

UPDATE: GI outbreak over at Armstrong retirement home

A gastrointestinal outbreak was declared at Pleasant Valley Manor Jan. 19

A gastrointestinal outbreak at an Armstrong long-term care facility is over.

Interior Health reported the GI in the Salmon Valley unit at Pleasant Valley Manor Jan. 19. The outbreak was over Jan. 25

The Morning Star would like to apologize for incorrectly referring to the outbreak as that of COVID-19 in initial reports.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Brendan Shykora
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