Huron Perth Public Health offers weekly snapshot of state of Covid-19
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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
