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Al Waite took his 100-year-old mother home on Monday afternoon from the North Vancouver care home where another resident became Canada’s fatality from COVID-19.

Waite had his mother in the front seat beside him when he stopped his vehicle to talk briefly to journalists in front of Lynn Valley Care Centre.

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“We’re getting her out of here,” he said. “We’re taking her home to get her away from all this until it’s all over with.”

Waite said he and his wife came to the care home on Lynn Valley Road on their own. They were told they couldn’t bring Waite’s mother back to the nursing home until “this is all over.”

Waite wouldn’t give his mother’s name but said she wasn’t ill.

“At 100 years old, you don’t want this thing,” he said. “I just don’t want my mom to get sick.”

A resident in his 80s died late Sunday, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, announced on Monday. He had underlying health problems before being infected with the new coronavirus earlier this month and developing COVID-19.