As health officials encourage everyone to receive their first and second COVID-19 booster doses, statistics show three health units in eastern Ontario have the highest third dose vaccination rates in Ontario.
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Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021 • February 4, 2021 • 1 minute read A student at Ecole Sir John A. Macdonald Public School has tested positive for COVID-19. Photo by Elliot Ferguson /The Whig-Standard
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KINGSTON A student at Ecole Sir John A. Macdonald Public School has been identified as testing positive for COVID-19, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health reported on Thursday.
According to the local public health office, the student lives in the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit region, so was not included in the Kingston-area case count on Thursday.
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Fast Facts: 3,000 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 are en route to Ottawa Ottawa Public Health reports 48 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa Saturday, while Ontario logged over 1,800 new COVID-19 cases for a fourth straight day COVID-19 outbreak at Gananoque dealership linked to 37 cases of novel coronavirus
COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa:
New cases: 48 cases on Saturday
Total COVID-19: 8,987
Positivity rate in Ottawa: 1.5 per cent (Dec 4-10)
Reproduction Number: 1.02 (seven day average)
Testing: Ottawa Public Health says there are four reasons to seek testing for COVID-19: You are showing COVID-19 symptoms. OR You have been exposed to a confirmed case of the virus, as informed by Ottawa Public Health or exposure notification through the COVID Alert app. OR
OTTAWA Thirty-seven cases of COVID-19 have been traced to an automotive dealership and collision centre in Gananoque. On Wednesday, the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit and Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFL&A) declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Gananoque Chevrolet and the CSN Gananoque Collision Centre. The health units said all customers of Gananoque Chev Buick GMC Cadillac dealership and the CSN Gananoque Collision Centre between Dec. 2 to 8 should assess their interactions with staff. Persons who interacted with staff during this time may have been exposed to COVID-19, said the health units in a statement.