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“Medical assessments of our residents are ongoing, with our registered staff and the physician from Sensenbrenner Hospital on site each day.
“The team from Timmins and District Hospital (TADH) remains on site, supporting with additional staff and infection prevention and control best practices.”
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On Wednesday, the team from TADH was “assisting with deep cleaning of resident rooms and further cohorting to help limit virus spread.”
In addition to the four deaths, the health unit reported five new COVID-19 cases among residents within its catchment area Wednesday.
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Four new cases of COVID-19 are being reported by the Porcupine Health Unit. And again, they’re split between Kapuskasing and the Hearst-Hornepayne area.
One of the Kap cases is at Extendicare. All the health unit says about the other one is that how the person was exposed to the virus is under investigation.
Both of the Hearst-Hornepayne diagnoses are traced to contact with an existing case.
Since the pandemic began, PHU has had 289 confirmed cases.
There are no positive COVID-19 cases to add today to the Porcupine Health Unit’s running total of 285.
TIMMINS The outbreak at Extendicare Kapuskasing stabilized Tuesday, with no new cases beyond the 32 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents and 13 cases among employees. The Timmins and District Hospital sent some of its staff to help with the situation and will be working with Extendicare to conduct a thorough infection control assessment. Of the 16 COVID-19-related deaths to date in the Porcupine Health Unit area, seven are linked to the outbreak at Kapuskasing Extendicare. Requests for interviews from Extendicare, Timmins and District Hospital and the Porcupine Health Unit, were denied. But Mushkegowuk-James Bay MPP Guy Bourgouin said the town of 9,000 people is finding the outbreak at the facility concerning, where, he said, there are 49 residents.
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The running total of COVID-19 cases since the arrival of the pandemic last year in this region is 280.
The Porcupine Health Unit announced one new case at Extendicare Kapuskasing yesterday, bringing it to that mark. The home says two of its residents have been transferred to Sensenbrenner Hospital.
(Denis J. Puska, MyKapuskasingNow.com staff)