The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit reported its eight COVID-19-related death in Northumberland County on Friday and more cases at an outbreak at a Lindsay long-term care home.
Details on the Northumberland death case were not made available — it’s now the health unit’s 48th death since the pandemic was declared with 40 in the City of Kawartha Lakes. Twenty-eight of those were associated with a springtime outbreak at Pinecrest Nursing Home.
There was also a fourth resident death reported at the Caressant Care McLaughlin Road long-term care in Lindsay after an outbreak was declared on Jan. 9.
According to the company, as of Friday afternoon there were 32 active cases (17 residents and 15 staff), up from 25 reported on Thursday morning.
“We are saddened by the losses it is very heartbreaking and our thoughts continue to be with those who have been affected by this outbreak,” said Stuart Oakley, the company’s communications and marketing manager.
The health unit on Friday morning reported six new cases of COVID-19 — five in the Kawarthas and one in Northumberland.
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Four other outbreaks remain active in the health unit’s jurisdiction as of Friday morning:
- Caressant Care Mary Street nursing home in Lindsay: Declared Jan. 23, one employee
- Warkworth Place long-term care in Warkworth (declared Jan. 17 — one resident death, two staff test positive)
- Golden Plough Lodge long-term care home in Cobourg (declared Jan. 16 — three staff members have tested positive)
- Hope Street Terrace long-term care in Port Hope (declared Jan. 1 — two resident deaths, 16 other residents and 15 staff members test positive.
As of Friday, there are now 61 active cases, down from the 83 active cases reported 24 hours earlier: 46 in the Kawarthas, 13 in Northumberland and two in Haliburton County.
Since the pandemic’s beginning, there have been 839 reported cases of COVID-19 in the health unit’s jurisdiction, of which 743 have been resolved — approximately 89 per cent. To date, there have been 32 hospitalized cases.
The health unit reports there are 126 high-risk contacts, a slight decrease from 132 reported on Thursday.
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