January 21: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 21 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: 775, including 342 in Kawartha Lakes, 350 in Northumberland, and 43 in Haliburton (increase of 40, including 35 in Kawartha Lakes, 3 in Northumberland, and 2 in Haliburton)
*Active cases: 99, including 53 in Kawartha Lakes, 40 in Northumberland, and 6 in Haliburton (increase of 36, including 33 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland, and 2 in Haliburton)
Probable cases: 4 in Kawartha Lakes (increse of 2 in Kawartha Lakes)
High-risk contacts: 154, including 72 in Kawartha Lakes, 56 in Northumberland, and 12 in Haliburton (net decrease of 11)**
Hospitalizations (total to date): 29, including 20 in Kawartha Lakes, 8 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)***
Deaths (including among probable cases): 42, including 36 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland (no change)
Resolved: 647, including 301 in Kawartha Lakes, 307 in Northumberland, 39 in Haliburton (increase of 4, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes and 2 in Northumberland)
Institutional outbreaks: Hope St. Terrace long-term care home in Port Hope, FenelonCourt in Fenelon Falls, Island Park Retirement Residence in Campbellford, Maplewood long-term care home in Brighton, Caressant Care McLaughlin Road long-term care home in Lindsay, Tower of Port Hope, Canadian Centre for Addictions in Port Hope, Golden Plough Lodge in Cobourg, Warkworth Place long-term care home in Warkworth (no change)
*Most of the new cases in Kawartha Lakes are related to an outbreak at Caressant Care McLaughlin Road in Lindsay. 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 14 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts’ county.
***As of January 20, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 3 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, a decrease of 1 since yesterday - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 21 Jan 2021
- Date Of Event
- 21 Jan 2021
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
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- Contact
- Kawartha Lakes Public LibraryEmail:lindsaylibrary@kawarthalakeslibrary.ca
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