Ontario Assessing COVID-19 Trends to Decide Control Levels
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Thunder Bay Unless there is a serious change, it is likely that Thunder Bay will remain in the Orange Protect category for COVID-19. On Friday, the Ontario government announced that the Peel Region and Toronto will remain in the Grey-Lockdown level and a re-assessment will happen for those regions on January 4, 2020.
Premier Doug Ford will be holding an emergency meeting with health officials.
Thunder Bay has seen the overall numbers of active cases drop. What is likely keeping the District out of being placed in the Red-Control Zone is that the rates of positive tests over the past two weeks has been below the guideline of 2.5 per cent. The number of cases reported at 40 per 100,000 of population is one of the criteria. The Thunder Bay District has met that criteria over the past two weeks.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 12:40 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Hospitals in Hamilton and Halton will be part of the next round of vaccine distribution. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Hospitals in Hamilton and Halton are on the list of sites that will receive doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks.
The province released a list of the 17 hospitals on Friday, including Halton Healthcare and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS).
Health officials say the doses will be given to health-care workers in high-risk settings such as long-term care homes or hospitals first, followed by other priority populations.
Locally, staff with HHS and St. Joseph s Healthcare Hamilton, as well as primary care physicians and paramedics, are working to set up the city s first COVID-19 vaccination clinic for people who work in long-term care, the city says.
With the winter break approaching, there is concern families won t abide by public health recommendations and will gather during the holidays. People do gather around that Christmas holiday . We would have people potentially coming back to school who may have engaged in a gathering larger than you re supposed to, increasing the risk [to others] and they would be asymptomatic, so it wouldn t necessarily be caught by screening, Danko said.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement on Friday afternoon that as we continue to see increased rates of community transmission, our schools remain safe. To put this into perspective eight out of ten schools in this province have no active COVID-19 cases at all and 99.66 per cent of students have never reported a case of COVID-19, he said.
Hamilton sees school COVID-19 cases as Ontario hints at full-remote learning in 2021
Ten students and one staff member in Hamilton have tested positive for COVID-19, the third double-digit day for school-related infections in the city. The province also said families and school boards should be prepared in case they begin January classes fully remote.
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Posted: Dec 17, 2020 8:42 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Hamilton schools continue to see COVID-19 cases, and the province told families and school boards to be prepared for a potential pivot to full-remote learning.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Ten students and one staff member in Hamilton have tested positive for COVID-19, the third double-digit day for school-related infections in the city.
The city also reported two new outbreaks as of Dec. 16. An outbreak was declared at the Meadows Long-Term Care home, where one resident has been confirmed infected, as well as the Amica Dundas seniors residence, where one staff member is infected.
The COVID-19 outbreak at Grace Villa remains the city s largest outbreak. The number of cases grew to 186 since Nov. 25. Six more residents were infected for a total of 124, and three more staff for a total of 62.
Six more staff and three more residents at Shalom Village Nursing Home also tested positives. There have been 87 cases at the home since Dec. 9 (46 residents, 40 staff, one visitor).