January 28: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 28 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: 834, including 419 in Kawartha Lakes, 367 in Northumberland, and 48 in Haliburton (increase of 8, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland)
*Active cases: 83, including 63 in Kawartha Lakes, 15 in Northumberland, and 5 in Haliburton (decrease of 6, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes and 4 in Northumberland)
Probable cases: 4, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (increase of 2, including 1 in Northumberland and 1 in Haliburton)
High-risk contacts: 134, including 66 in Kawartha Lakes, 44 in Northumberland, and 16 in Haliburton (net decrease of 16)**
Hospitalizations (total to date): 32, including 22 in Kawartha Lakes, 8 in Northumberland, and 2 in Haliburton (no change)***
Deaths (including among probable cases): 47, including 40 in Kawartha Lakes and 7 in Northumberland (no change)
Resolved: 717, including 329 in Kawartha Lakes, 345 in Northumberland, 43 in Haliburton( increase of 13, including 7 in Kawartha Lakes and 6 in Northumberland)
Institutional outbreaks: Hope St. Terrace long-term care home in Port Hope, Caressant Care McLaughlin Road long-term care home in Lindsay, Golden Plough Lodge in Cobourg, Warkworth Place long-term care home in Warkworth, Caressant Care retirement home in Lindsay (decrease 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 8 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts’ county.
***As of January 28, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 2 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (no change from yesterday).
****The outbreak at Caressant Care nursing home on Mary Street in Lindsay has been declared resolved. - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 28 Jan 2021
- Date Of Event
- 28 Jan 2021
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
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