January 18: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 18 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.
These numbers include January 17 and 18.Confirmed positive: 724, including 336 in Kawartha Lakes, 345 in Northumberland, and 43 in Haliburton (increase of 19, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes, 10 in Northumberland, and4 in Haliburton)
*Active cases: 70, including 21 in Kawartha Lakes, 44 in Northumberland, and 5 in Haliburton (increase of 10, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes, 4 in Northumberland, and 4 inHaliburton)
Probable cases: 2 in Kawartha Lakes (net decrease of 1)High-risk contacts: 163, including 69 in Kawartha Lakes, 62 in Northumberland, and 14 in Haliburton (net increase of 14)**
Hospitalizations (total to date): 29, including 19 in Kawartha Lakes, 9 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)***
Deaths (including among probable cases): 42, including 36 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland (increase of 1 in Northumberland)
Resolved: 625, including 292 in Kawartha Lakes, 295 in Northumberland, 38 in Haliburton (increase of 10, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes and 5 in Northumberland)
Institutional outbreaks: Hope St. Terrace long-term care home in Port Hope, Fenelon Court in Fenelon Falls, Island Park Retirement Residence in Campbellford, Maplewood long-term care home in Brighton, Caressant Care McLaughlin Road in Lindsay, Tower of PortHope, Canadian Centre for Addictions in Port Hope, Golden Plough Lodge in Cobourg, Warkworth Place long-term care home in Warkworth (increase of 1)****
*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 an additional 18 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts’ county.
***As of January 18, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 5 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19.
****An outbreak was declared at Warkworth Place long-term care home in Warkworth on January 17. - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 18 Jan 2021
- Date Of Event
- 18 Jan 2021
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
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