MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 71 new COVID-19 cases and four new deaths Monday after a record-setting weekend. The new cases and deaths bring the region’s total to 2,543 cases, 2,022 resolved and 91 deaths, leaving 430 active cases, On Saturday, Middlesex-London set a new single-day record with 87 cases, topping the previous record of 66 cases set the day before. An additional 65 cases were reported Sunday. In total, 152 new cases were reported on the weekend. Of the four deaths, a man and woman in their 80s were associated with a long-term care home. Of two others, a man in his 60s and another in his 80s, one is associated with the outbreak at University Hospital.
KITCHENER Health officials in Huron Perth say a COVID-19 outbreak at Stratford General Hospital is now over. The outbreak was declared in the Medicine Unit on Dec. 3 following two positive cases in staff members. In total, seven staff members tested positive for the disease. No patients were affected. The Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance say the outbreak was over on Monday. More than 140 staff members were tested, according to officials. The unit has reopened to admissions and transfers. Officials say it s important to continue following public health measures like wearing masks, practicing physical distancing and practicing good hand hygiene.
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Two additional cases of COVID-19 have been linked to an ongoing outbreak at Listowel Memorial Hospital.
The new cases, one added on Thursday and the other on Friday, bring the total number of people affected to 12 – eight staff members and four patients.
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“COVID remains heavily present throughout our municipality and community linkages are the probable source of the patient infections,” the Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance said in an update Friday.
The outbreak was declared on the hospital’s second floor medicine unit Wednesday. Every physician and staff member that has worked at the hospital since Dec. 11 is now required to take a COVID-19 test. Those results are still being received.
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Laboratory services at Stratford General Hospital will no longer be available to walk-ins beginning early next month.
The decision announced by the region’s hospital group on Friday will take effect Jan. 6 and follows similar changes already made at the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance’s other three hospitals in St. Marys, Clinton, and Seaforth.
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“Community members who are not actively receiving treatment at Stratford General Hospital, with requisitions from their doctor’s offices or other health-care providers, can visit one of the community laboratory service providers operating in Stratford and area,” said Ryan Itterman, the hospital group’s director of diagnostics, regional pharmacy and chemotherapy, in a press release.
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Two additional cases of COVID-19 have been linked to an ongoing outbreak at Listowel Memorial Hospital.
The new cases, one added on Thursday and the other on Friday, bring the total number of people affected to 12 – eight staff members and four patients.
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“COVID remains heavily present throughout our municipality and community linkages are the probable source of the patient infections,” the Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance said in an update Friday.
The outbreak was declared on the hospital’s second floor medicine unit Wednesday. Every physician and staff member that has worked at the hospital since Dec. 11 is now required to take a COVID-19 test. Those results are still being received.