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TinniTus soluTions wax reMoval on-siTe Hearing aid repair & Cleaning An Oshawa man has been identified as one of two people killed when gunfire erupted on June 25 in the city's north end. Joshua Connell-Wong, 22, was killed in the shooting at BLVD Resto and Bar on Simcoe Street North, Durham police confirmed June 29. Jaheim Spence, 21, of Toronto, also died of gunshot wounds sustained during the incident, police said. An investigation continues into the incident, which left another three men injured, police said. According to information released shortly after the shootings, officers were called to the BLVD, at 1812 Simcoe St. N. around 12:45 a.m. for reports of shots being fired. Officers found five victims at the scene, each suffering from gunshot wounds. Police say one man was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased. A second man was transported to a Toronto Trauma Centre in critical condition where he later succumbed to his injuries. Police said the three remaining victims were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and released. An online obituary for Joshua Malik Connell-Wong depicts a young man sitting astride a motorcycle. "Joshua loved his motorcycle, music and especially Catalia," the death notice reads. "He was a loving, kind, caring, gentle, softspoken, beautiful inside and out with a great big heart." Police have issued an appeal for witnesses, including anyone with video relevant to the investigation, to come forward. Call the homicide unit at 905- 579-1520, extension 5407 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800- 222-8477. OSHAWA MAN ONE OF TWO KILLED IN JUNE 25 SHOOTING JEFF MITCHELL jmitchell@ durhamregion.com Joshua Connell-Wong was killed in an Oshawa shooting on June 25, 2022. Arbor Memorial photo As Ontario enters a seventh wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron BA. 5 subvariant, the amount of virus detected in wastewater is high across Durham Region. The most recent data from the Durham Region Health Department posted July 7 lists the concentration of COVID virus in wastewater as "high" for all seven sample sites. The province's chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore, and the head of Ontario government's science advisory table Dr. Fahad Razak, said this week that Ontario is now in a seventh COVID wave citing rising test positivity, COVID presence in wastewater, and an increased number of public health units seeing a dramatic rise in cases. Durham's health department reported a COVID positivity rate of 10.1 per cent for the week of June 26 to July 2 as well as 278 new cases -- that number represents a fraction of actual cases as access to PCR testing remains very limited. There are eight active COVID outbreaks in institutions in Durham including two at Lakeridge Health Oshawa. Wastewater samples in Durham are collected about three times per week from seven sites across the region -- five water pollution control plants and two sanitary sewer pumping stations. Durham Region Works Department collects the samples, which are then analyzed by Ontario Tech University to detect COVID viral fragments. Each sampling site is given a colour coded "viral signal strength" of high, medium or low based on seasonal historical data of COVID concentrations in wastewater. Each site is also listed as increasing, describing or stable -- all seven sites in Durham are stable as of July 7. Durham started wastewater collection in March 2021 as one way of monitoring COVID infection trends in the community. In past pandemic waves, wastewater signals served as an early warning that the virus was rising in a community. HIGH COVID LEVELS IN WASTEWATER ACROSS DURHAM JILLIAN FOLLERT jfoller t@durhamregion.com NEWS HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTED COVID POSITIVITY RATE OF 10.1 PER CENT FOR WEEK OF JUNE 26 TO JULY 2 The COVID-19 wastewater signal is listed as high at all seven sampling sites in Durham as of July 7. In this file photo, University of Guelph engineering student Jonathan Evans holds a container of waste water collected from a sewer. Metroland file photo