Thursday COVID-19 report: No new cases today; outbreak at Extendicare Kap over
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Exposure to pre-existing cases of COVID-19 is blamed for the six latest cases by the Porcupine Health Unit.Two of them are in the Hearst-Hornepayne corridor,and the other four in one or more coastal communities. The total number of cases so far in the pandemic in the region is 336.
One piece of very good COVID-19 news and one hopeful piece from the Porcupine Health Unit in the past 24 hours.
Late yesterday afternoon, it and Extendicare Kapuskasing announced the end of the outbreak at the long-term care home. It has been two weeks since any resident or staff member tested positive for the coronavirus. The outbreak was declared January 6th and saw the deaths of 15 residents.
Outbreak at Extendicare Kap declared over
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Thursday COVID-19 report: No new cases today; outbreak at Extendicare Kap over
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While the Porcupine Health Unit is still waiting for final test results on two suspected “variant” cases of COVID-19, there is a degree of certainty both of these will turn out to be positive cases.
“We do expect these to be positive because they are related to a variant of concern outbreak in another community,” Dr. Lianne Catton, medical officer of health for the Porcupine Health Unit.
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The suspect variant cases involve a pair of Timmins residents.
“We are still awaiting confirmation from the third and final test which is the whole genome sequencing which can take up to 14 days,” Catton explained.
PHU expects Timmins pair will be area s first variant cases
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