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TORONTO Ontario is reporting just under 2,200 new infections of COVID-19, marking a full week in which daily case numbers have remained below 3,000. The 2,199 cases added Sunday mark a decrease from the 2,584 logged on Saturday. This brings Ontario’s lab-confirmed COVID-19 case total to 509,316, including 474,175 recoveries and 8,485 deaths. Health officials said that at least 30 of those deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. Currently, there are 26,656 active cases of the novel coronavirus across the province. The seven-day average for number of cases reported is 2,430. A week ago that number was 3,120. With 33,142 tests processed since yesterday, the Ministry of Health says Ontario’s COVID-19 positivity rate is 6.8 per cent.
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Chesley hospital’s emergency room remains closed overnight, due to a shortage of nurses and increased demands on them due to COVID-19, the hospital corporation’s president and CEO said Friday.
The department has been closed from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. since September 2019, to ensure patient and staff safety, hospital officials have said.
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Of the 11 emergency departments in Grey-Bruce, Chesley’s hospital is the only one without 24/7 emergency room coverage.
It takes a skilled, experienced nurse to work in the emergency department, particularly overnight when they are by themselves and may encounter any health emergency, Michael Barrett, South Bruce Grey Health Services’ president and CEO, said in an interview Friday.
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“Your next dose is scheduled,” it said.
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That’s what the official Ontario Ministry of Health sheet said. The nice woman at the Shoppers Drug Mart on Lakeshore Blvd. in Toronto handed it to me, and told me to stick around for fifteen minutes in case I felt faint or something.
I stuck around. I looked at the sheet again.
I’d just gotten my first dose of what was described as “AstraZeneca Covid-19 Non-rep VV.” The sheet didn’t say when I’d be getting a second dose of vaccine. But it said I’d be getting my “next dose” of what the nice woman said was AstraZeneca.
Only Quebec and New Brunswick have given the green light for overnight camps, while camps in the rest of Canada are still in the dark, and running out of time to clear logistical hurdles for coming season