Over the past five weeks the Eastern Ontario Health Unit has lowered the risk index for COVID-19 within the region as the pandemic has gone endemic, caseloads drop, and the available data also decreases.
The EOHU had its testing positivity rate at 6.3 per cent Friday, the lowest it’s been since July 2022— though the number of tests on which that rate is based on is no longer provided. Since March 31, the rate peaked at 10.4 per cent on April 21.
On Friday, the EOHU had nine people hospitalized for treatment, which is down from the 12 on March 31, and reported none of those nine were being treated in an intensive/critical care unit.
Ontario data posted Thursday assigned 20,496 confirmed cases to the EOHU, an increase of 142 since its March 30 update.
The EOHU had two congregated-care facilities in COVID-19 outbreak on Friday, Open Hands – Gage Street residence in Cornwall, and 6 South at the Cornwall Community Hospital. There is an ongoing coronavirus/rhinovirus outbreak that is not COVID-19 at Heartwood long-term care in Cornwall, and unknown enteric outbreaks at Heritage Heights in Cornwall, Chartwell McConnell Manor in Cornwall, Residence Prescott-Russell in Hawkesbury, and B2 North at the Hawkesbury General Hospital.
Ontario no longer collects and posts data on active COVID-19 cases within long-term care facilities; it stopped doing so at the end of March.
Lastly, the EOHU reported an additional 1,484 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the region since March 31, for a running total of 558,690 given in the region since Jan. 12, 2021.
