There’s no further risk of exposure to COVID-19 after a McDonald’s employee within Kamloops Walmart tested positive.

That has been indicated by Interior Health, which says it although as a precaution McDonald’s issued a statement asking people who were there on Nov. 5 to follow BC Centre for Disease Control guidelines, which includes self-monitoring for any symptoms.

IH medical health officer Doctor Carol Fenton says the health authority would announce it, if there were any public health risk.

“I can’t comment directly on that case because I haven’t seen the report. But I can say that as you look at the numbers over the last month, we have been having more cases in Kamloops. And most of those cases do normal things, like they go to the gas station, they go to the grocery store and they may go to a restaurant,” Fenton says.

“Whenever we get a report in IH that a case has been to a store or a public place, we review the story that the case tells us of where they went, how long they were there and what they did. And we decide whether or not there is any risk to the public. If there’s no risk to the public, then we don’t make any announcements.

“So if someone said they went to the grocery store but they were wearing a mask and they cleaned their hands and they didn’t stay at the store longer than 15 minutes, than they would be adhering to the safety plan and they wouldn’t be putting anybody else at risk.”

The case was confirmed on Sunday, and the McDonald’s restaurant where that person works was shut down Sunday night to be cleaned, before reopening on Monday. Other McDonald’s employees who were close to the positive test have been asked to self isolate.