There were five new confirmed ongoing cases, seven positive tests at Secord Trails Community Care in Ingersoll and one case resolved, Southwestern public health confirmed Friday morning.
Southwestern Public Health building in Woodstock.
There were five new confirmed ongoing cases, seven positive tests at Secord Trails Community Care in Ingersoll and one case resolved, Southwestern public health confirmed Friday morning.
The positive tests bring the total in the Oxford and Elgin areas to 10 ongoing cases.
There have been 57 cases resolved in the health unit’s region.
Nine of the confirmed ongoing cases are in Oxford County, with four in Ingersoll, two in each of Tillsonburg and Woodstock and one in East Zorra-Tavistock. In Elgin County, there is one confirmed ongoing cases in Malahide.
There is one active institutional outbreak following a positive test of an employee at Secord Trails Care Community in Ingersoll Monday. Subsequent testing has found seven total employees – but no residents – have COVID-19.
The long-term care home, owned by Sienna Senior Living, is working with the health unit to test for any possible spread of the virus.
Secord Trails Community Care in Ingersoll.
The employees are now self-isolating after the outbreak was declared Monday.
The positive tests are the first long-term care facility in Oxford County to have a person confirmed with COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Moffatt and Powell RONA in Tillsonburg announced Thursday afternoon a store associate had tested positive for COVID-19. They were notified Wednesday and the employee’s previous shift was Tuesday.
In a Facebook post, they said they’re “proceeding with an extensive cleaning and disinfecting of the premises.”
They’re recommending anyone who visited the store between May 15 and May 19 monitor themselves for symptoms until June 2 and call Telehealth Ontario if more information is needed.
According to new data from the health unit, which comes from the bed census summary from the province’s health ministry, the last hospitalization in Oxford or Elgin due to COVID-19 was April 28.
In the Southwestern public health region, there are no ongoing cases in any of the area’s four hospitals, according to critical care information from the Ministry of Health. The last case in the ICU was May 3 from information provided by the health unit.
The health unit has done 3,855 tests, with 3,553 coming back negative and a further 231 pending results.
A total of 2 per cent of tests done are coming back positive, according to data from Southwestern public health.
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