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Cornish Headquarters of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit. Photo taken on Thursday, September 26, 2019, in Cornwall, Ont. Todd Hambleton / Cornwall Standard-Freeholder / Postmedia Network Photo of Todd Hambleton / Todd Hambleton / Standard-Freeholder
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If there was any doubt about the entry of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region into the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, this week’s updated data shows that it has arrived and may be near its high point.
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The main indicators showing this are positivity rates and wastewater testing, both of which have shown notable increases last week.
The region has also seen an additional related death revealed on Tuesday, 234, that Ontario data suggest was a woman in her 50s, tested on May 10, who has no known connection to another confirmed case. .
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New COVID-19-related death at EOHU since June 24th
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New mortality related to COVID-19 in the EOHU
Hospitalizations also increased, reaching 14 people on Tuesday, and 11 on Friday; this compares with the nine of July 8th. Of the 11, two are still being cared for within an intensive care unit.
The increase in the positivity rate of the tests is remarkable, more than doubling from 7.1 percent on July 8 to 16.1 percent on Friday, placing the EOHU rate as the second highest of Ontario. This is because the average number of people tested per day increased from 24 to just over 33.
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“We’re definitely on the seventh wave,” EOHU health doctor Dr Paul Roumeliotis said in his weekly YouTube channel update released on Wednesday. “We’re in a seventh wave, I think one or two more weeks and the cases will go down.”
Roumeliotis said he estimated that the start of this latest wave in the region was around June 19, with increases in positivity, hospitalizations and outbreaks of congregated care linked to the Day of the Day weekend. Father in June until the long Canada Day weekend.
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Ontario case load data loaded every Thursday afternoon assigned 194 additional cases to the EOHU, for a total of 16,431. The Standard-Freeholder will spend the summer updating the individual upload data in its data file, which is still accessible online. It continues to contain active cases within COVID-19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities, which the province also updates every Thursday.
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Since July 8, the EOHU has declared new outbreaks of COVID-19 in the south wing C-2 of Hawkesbury General Hospital, Rockland Manor, Maxville Manor, Garden Villa Retirement Home in Chesterville, Riverfront Retirement Center in Cornwall, the auditorium unit of Cornwall Community Hospital and Foyer St. Viateur old people’s home in Limoges. None of the active outbreaks last week were removed, meaning there are now 13 active outbreaks.
Provincial data on active cases within COVID-19 outbreaks at long-term care facilities showed changes in cases in Tsiionkwanonhso: Long Term Care in Akwesasne, from five cases of staff members to less than five resident cases. Maxville Manor shows less than five cases of residents.
As for vaccination, Roumeliotis spent almost half of its weekly update discussing it, given Wednesday’s announcement that as of Thursday, anyone 18 years old is now eligible to book a fourth dose / second. strengthening of its vaccine against COVID-19. While those most at risk for infection, or those around those most at risk of infection, are definitely encouraged to get their next dose, the greatest need in the EOHU is not the availability of the fourth dose, but the taking of third doses.
“Most (those under 60) have not received a third dose; we cannot talk about a fourth dose for these individuals when they have not had a third,” Roumeliotis said. “A lot of people in our area and in Ontario haven’t received the third dose. If we increase the protection of the third dose and the people eligible for a fourth get the fourth, that will increase the protection in the community …
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“We don’t lose sight of the fact that up to 78 percent of certain age groups in our area are not eligible for a fourth dose because they haven’t had a third.”
The EOHU reported 1,793 additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered since its July 8 update, for a total of 491,001 administered since January 12, 2021.
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- Cornwall – 840 McConnell Ave. – call 343-475-0160
- Shoppers Drug Mart – Cornwall Square, Alexandria, Embrun – From 2 years old – online booking
- Akwesasne (residents only in the northern part of the territory): call 613-575-2341 ext. 3220
- Long Sault Pharmasave – 43 Long Sault Dr. – From 2 years – book online or call 613-534-3777
- Pharmacie Notre Dame Pharmacy – 649 Notre Dame St., Unit 104 – From 5 years old – book online
- Rockland: Visit the website to determine eligibility and book
- Jean Coutu Pharmacy, Rockland – 2246 Laurier St. – From 5 years – book online or call 613-446-5054
- Rockland Pharmacy – 2768 Laurier St. – From 4 years – book online
- Hawkesbury – 750 Laurier St. – From 2 years, book online
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