- 1594 total confirmed cases since start of the pandemic
- There are 2 Huron Perth residents in hospital due to Covid-19
- 8 total Covid-19 patients in Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance Region with 7 in the area ICU’s
- 32 active cases including 14 presumptive positive VOC’s
- There has been an 1 additional resident pass away with Covid-19 contributing causes bringing to 53
- There was an outbreak declared on April 30th for Fordwich Village with 2 staff cases. No more cases confirmed after subsequent testing
- Facility has 100% of residents and 85% of staff vaccinated
- New directive for Long-Term-Care and Retirement home states (Directive 3) which states that the higher the vaccination rate of a facility will permit less health restrictions in a facility. This reflects that the more unvaccinated staff/residents there are the higher the risk.
- 1 outbreak in a congregate setting and 1 workplace outbreak declared yesterday afternoon
- 49,323 vaccination doses administered in Huron Perth as of May 4th
- Goal in Province was 40% of eligible residents vaccinated by May 1st. We achieved 39.8% coverage in Huron Perth by that deadline
- (population aged 18 and over in the Province, 16 and over locally in Huron Perth)
- Locally HPPH will not lowering eligibility for Pfizer vaccine to 12 from the current 16 and over
- As of Thursday, May 6th the eligibility in HP will be expanded
- those turning 50 and over in 2021 (born 1971 or earlier)
- People who cannot work from home who live in Group
- 40 and over continue to be eligible for vaccination at Pharmacies
- HPPH will be closing vaccination booking system from 4:30pm today and reopen it tomorrow for maintenance
- They expect it to be busy when it reopens on Thursday so be patient with any issues encountered
- There will be enough vaccine for everyone as their age group becomes available.
