‘Contact tracing immediately’: Employees at Metro, Food Basics, FreshCo, Sobeys, Farm Boy and other Ontario grocery stores test positive for COVID-19 and here are the affected locations

Several cases of COVID-19 are emerging in major Ontario grocery stores, according to the industry.

With new travel rules and Omicron bans rolled out in an effort to contain the concerning new variant, grocery stores continue to report new infections.

Here are the affected locations in Ontario.

Metro

• November 29 – New infection at Food Basics, 448 St. Clair Street, Chatham, last day worked being November 25

• November 26 – New infection at Food Basics, 275 Brockville Street, Smiths Falls, last day of work being November 23

• November 24 – New infections at Food Basics, 150 Katimavik Rd, Kanata, last days worked for both employees being November 17 and 20

• November 22 – New infection at Food Basics at 1225 Princess Street, Kingston, last day of work being November 18

• Nov. 18 – New case at Metro at 250 Greenbank Road, Ottawa, last day worked being Nov. 15.

farm boy

• Nov. 30 – New case at 777 Bay St., Toronto with last day worked Nov. 21.

• Nov. 30 – New case at 1642 Merivale Road, Ottawa, last day worked being Nov. 21.

• November 29 – New case at 801 Mohawk Road West, Hamilton, last working day being November 23

• Nov. 19 – New case at 6315 Hazeldean Rd, Ottawa, last working day being Nov. 16.

Farm Boy said public health and stores are “working to do contact tracing immediately.”

Sobeys

• November 26 – New case at Sobeys at 678 Broadway St. RR 7, Tillsonburg, last working day being November 20

• Nov. 25 – New case at Sobeys at 840 March Rd, Kanata, last day worked being Nov. 19.

• November 22 – New case at FreshCo at 2440 Dundas St W., Toronto, last working day being November 14

• November 16 – New case at Foodland, 80 Fittons Rd. E., Orillia, last working day being November 12.

McDonald’s, meanwhile, joins Loblaw Companies Limited, whose stores include No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore

and Shoppers Drug Mart, which last summer decided to no longer publicize cases of COVID-19 in its stores.