Return of hugs, communal meals brings a move toward normal in care homes
A long-term care home administrator is welcoming news that residents of many homes will again be able to share hugs, and communal meals after the province reduced COVID-19 restrictions thanks to increased vaccination rates.
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Posted: May 04, 2021 6:41 PM ET | Last Updated: May 4
Resident Gilles Charest gets a COVID-19 vaccine dose at Ottawa s Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre. On Tuesday the province announced that high vaccination rates have cleared the way for a rollback on some restrictions on personal contact.(Andréa Fabricius/Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre)
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Outbreak in Ontario Long-Term Care Home That Killed 70 People Declared Over
BARRIE, Ont. A long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., says a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 70 of its residents has been declared over.
Jarlette Health Services, which owns the Roberta Place nursing home, says the local health unit declared the outbreak over on Thursday.
The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in the U.K., sickened more than 200 people at the home.
It was first declared on Jan. 8.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, which Barrie is part of, is among 27 units in Ontario that were allowed to loosen pandemic measures on Tuesday.