No COVID-19 outbreak at Warkworth Place long-term care home: health unit

The regional health unit says there is no coronavirus outbreak at a long-term care home in Warkworth, Ont.

Earlier Thursday,  the Warkworth Place website stated a staff member at the 60-resident facility on Mill Street had tested positive for COVID-19.

The case or outbreak had not been updated in data by the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit as of Thursday afternoon. There were no active cases listed in Northumberland County, according to its COVID dashboard which is usually 25-hours behind real-time data.

At 5:15 p.m., the health unit stated “incorrect information” was posted to the website of the facility.

“The HKPR District Health Unit has not declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility,” the health unit stated

Previous facility outbreaks for the health unit:

• Campbellford Memorial Multicare Lodge, Campbellford (reported Aug. 26)
• Fenelon Court, Fenelon Falls (May 11 and June 11)
• Kawartha Lakes Retirement Residence, Bobcaygeon (April 22)
• Maplewood long-term care, Brighton (April 20)
• Caressant Care Mary, Lindsay (April 18)
• Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay (April 18)
• Empire Crossing, April 10
• Pinecrest Nursing Home (March 18)

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