April 15, 2021: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 15 Apr 2021
Description
- Creator
- Taylor, Jeannine, Editor
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit’s service area is the City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland County, and Haliburton County.
The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding Sundays and statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 1,426, including 651 in Kawartha Lakes, 690 in Northumberland, and 85 in Haliburton (increase of 30, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes, 9 in Northumberland, and 2 in Haliburton)*
Cases with N501Y mutation: 203, including 67 in Kawartha Lakes, 131 in Northumberland, and 5 in Haliburton (increase of 9, including 7 in Kawartha Lakes and 2 in Northumberland)**
Active cases: 177, including 46 in Kawartha Lakes, 119 in Northumberland, and 12 in Haliburton (net decrease of 3)
Probable cases: 0 (decrease of 1 in Kawartha Lakes)
High-risk contacts: Not available***
Hospitalizations (total to date): 55, including 32 in Kawartha Lakes, 20 in Northumberland, and 3 in Haliburton (increase of 1 in Northumberland)****
Deaths (including among probable cases): 68, including 55 in Kawartha Lakes, 12 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)
Resolved: 1,194, including 563 in Kawartha Lakes, 559 in Northumberland, and 72 in Haliburton (increase of 17, including 3 in Kawartha Lakes and 14 in Northumberland)
Tests completed: 171,316 (increase of 3,908)
Vaccine doses administered: 38,415 (increase of 8,007 as of April 12)
Number of people fully vaccinated: 3,047 (increase of 58 as of April 12)
Outbreaks: St. Mary Catholic Secondary School in Cobourg, Timber House Resort in Brighton, Swiss Chalet in Cobourg, Christian Horizons in Port Hope, Cobourg Collegiate Institute in Cobourg, Fenelon Court long-term care home in Fenelon Falls, North Hope Central Public School in Campbellcroft (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.
**The N501Y mutation has been identified in variants of concern including the B.1.1.7 UK variant, the B.1.351 South Africa variant, and the P.1 Brazilian variant.
***As of April 14, the health unit is no longer reporting high-risk contacts due to a “process change of not collecting high risk information”.
****As of April 15, Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay reports 5 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (decrease of 1).
*****An outbreak at North Hope Central Public School in Campbellcroft was declared on April14 - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 15 Apr 2021
- Date Of Event
- 15 Apr 2021
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
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