{"id":255084,"date":"2020-05-16T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T03:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255084"},"modified":"2020-05-16T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T03:11:41","slug":"employee-at-mississauga-walmart-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/16\/employee-at-mississauga-walmart-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee at Mississauga Walmart tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225699\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225699\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/38868826295_8d26f80951_k-1024x580.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walmart Canada recently confirmed that an associate from the brand&#8217;s Heartland Town Centre location (800 Matheson Blvd.) was recently diagnosed with the novel\u00a0coronavirus. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jjbers\/38868826295\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jjbers\/\">JJBers\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An employee at a Mississauga Walmart has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart Canada recently confirmed that an associate from the brand&#8217;s Heartland Town Centre location (800 Matheson Blvd.) was recently diagnosed with the novel\u00a0coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in contact with the associate and are keeping them in our thoughts. Everyone at Walmart wishes them a speedy recovery,&#8221; Felicia Fefer Manager, Corporate Affairs, said in an email to\u00a0insauga.com.<\/p>\n<p>The associate last worked on May\u00a06.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart says that out of an abundance of caution, associates identified as being in close, prolonged contact with the affected worker have been directed to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have regular enhanced cleaning in the store and other social distancing measures in place. We have contacted public health,&#8221; Fefer\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rest assured, we will continue to take measures necessary to ensure the well-being of our customers and\u00a0associates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee at a Mississauga Walmart has tested positive for COVID-19. Walmart Canada recently confirmed that an associate from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-ashley-newport","mauthors-insagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255086,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255084\/revisions\/255086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}