Author of the article: Luke Hendry
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 5 minute read • This graph using public health data for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties shows COVID-19 cases by month and transmission. Close-contact cases are green, outbreak cases blue, local transmission orange, travel purple, and pending grey. Photo by Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
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When seen in hindsight, the view is striking.
Medical and scientific experts in Ontario and elsewhere have described how the coronavirus pandemic, after the arrival of virus variants, seemed almost to involve a different illness entirely. People were infected more quickly; younger people began dying quickly, and in greater numbers; entire households fell ill.
Author of the article: Postmedia Staff
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • A Quinte Health Care worker demonstrates the activation of a ventilator in the intensive care unit of Belleville General Hospital in August. Friday saw a record six patients with COVID-19 in the unit, one of them on a ventilator. Photo by Luke Hendry
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Local hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to reach new levels, with 14 people admitted in Quinte Health Care hospitals as of the noon hour Friday.
Six of those patients were in intensive care, the corporation reported.
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Author of the article: Postmedia Staff
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021 • 7 minutes ago • 3 minute read • A Quinte Health Care worker demonstrates the activation of a ventilator in the intensive care unit of Belleville General Hospital in August. Friday saw a record six patients with COVID-19 in the unit, one of them on a ventilator. Photo by Luke Hendry
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Local hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to reach new levels, with 14 people admitted in Quinte Health Care hospitals as of the noon hour Friday.
Six of those patients were in intensive care, the corporation reported.
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Author of the article: Postmedia Staff
Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 1 minute read • Anyone who visited The Duke on Belleville s Front Street between March 30 and April 2 should isolate and seek testing, public health officials say. They add those who visited Friday afternoon are high-risk contacts of a symptomatic COVID-19 case. Photo by Bruce Bell
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Another downtown Belleville pub is the source of a COVID-19 exposure, with some visitors now at high risk of infection, public health officials say.
Anyone who attended The Duke Pub and Grill on Front Street between March 30 and April 2 should get tested, authorities say, and some may be at high risk of infection.
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