January 8: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 8 Jan 2021
Description
- Creator
- Taylor, Jeannine, Publisher
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 627, including 303 in Kawartha Lakes, 288 in Northumberland, and 36 in Haliburton (increase of 12, including 4 in Kawartha Lakes, 6 in Northumberland, and 2in Haliburton)
*Active cases: 80, including 42 in Kawartha Lakes, 33 in Northumberland, and 4 in Haliburton (net increase of 2)
Probable cases: 2, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes (net decrease of 1)
High-risk contacts: 138, including 49 in Kawartha Lakes, 61 in Northumberland, and 7 in Haliburton (net increase of 8)
**Hospitalizations (total to date): 26, including 17 in Kawartha Lakes, 8 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)
***Deaths (including among probable cases): 38, including 35 in Kawartha Lakes and 3in Northumberland (increase of 1, in Kawartha Lakes)
Resolved: 523, including 239 in Kawartha Lakes, 252 in Northumberland, 32 in Haliburton (increase of 11, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Northumberland, and 2 in Haliburton)
Institutional outbreaks: Christian Horizons group home in Northumberland, Hope St. Terrace long-term care home in Port Hope (no change)
*The health unit states that total counts and counts for individual counties may fluctuate from previously reported counts as cases are transferred to or from the health unit based on case investigation details and routine data cleaning.
**This total includes 16 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts’ county.
***As of January 8, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 4 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19. - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 8 Jan 2021
- Date Of Event
- 8 Jan 2021
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ford, Doug, Premier ; Yaffe, Barbara, Dr. ; Lecce, Stephen, minister ; Elliott, Christine, minister
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
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