Public health and hospital officials in Waterloo Region are urging people to adhere to new COVID-19 testing guidelines that came into effect on Friday.
KITCHENER Hospital officials in Waterloo Region are keeping a close eye on ICU admissions as the number of patients in Ontario reached an all-time high Monday. It s a troubling picture, St. Mary s General Hospital President Lee Fairclough said. We typically see a rise in our own admissions in a pattern of about two weeks after what we start seeing in the GTA. According to Fairclough, 12 per cent of the people in the ICU at St. Mary s have tested positive for COVID-19. Patients who tested postiive for a variant of concern are two times as likely to end up in the ICU and 1.5 times more likely to die from the disease, according to Fairclough.