Three new cases of COVID-19 reported by Health Unit
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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is reporting three cases of COVID-19, two of which are in the Nipissing District.
One case is a person between 20 and 39, another is between 40 and 59 and the third is under the age of 19. Two of the cases are the result of close contact while one is due to community spread.
All three are now self-isolating.
With one resolved case added, there are now 18 active cases of COVID-19 in the region, six of which are in the Nipissing District.
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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has declared the community outbreak of COVID-19 at Nipissing University to be over.
A statement released Tuesday afternoon says all 19 individuals associated with the outbreak are considered to have had their cases resolved.
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âAlthough the community outbreak is over, this is not the time to be unconcerned,â the statement says. âThe health unitâs district is still seeing a number of individuals test positive for COVID-19, who are not associated with the community outbreak. The health unit is asking the public to continue to practise COVID-19 public health measures including physical distancing, wearing a face covering, washing or sanitizing hands often and coughing or sneezing into your sleeve. The public is also required to follow the measu
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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit confirmed on Tuesday that all nineteen individuals have recovered.
The health unit is asking the public to continue to practice COVID-19 public health measures, warning that although the community outbreak is over, a number of individuals who were not associated with the outbreak are testing positive for COVID-19.
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The new cases bring the total in Nipissing and Parry Sound districts to 122 since the pandemic was declared in March.
All new cases, three in Nipissing and one in Parry Sound, were community spread. Two cases involve people aged 20 to 39 and two others involve people aged 60 to 79. All are at home isolating.
There have been 122 cases in the district, 105 declared resolved and one death. One person from Parry Sound remains in hospital.
The last COVID-19 update was provided on Christmas Eve.
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The Cassellholme Home for the Aged visitor who originally tested positive for COVID-19 underwent a second test, which came back negative.
An email from the home to residents’ families states “the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has followed up with Cassellholme; the visitor has retested negative for COVID-19. As a result, all risk to exposure has been eliminated.”
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However, effective Saturday, all essential caregivers to Cassellholme are required to show proof of their negative COVID-19 test results.