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Vaccination requirements for restaurants, gyms and other public settings in Ontario may soon be lifting, but mandates for staff and even visitors in some hospitals will likely be in place much longer.

Hospitals in Waterloo Region and Wellington County wont start scheduling non-urgent surgeries and procedures Monday, saying theyre still dealing with "significant pressure" from the latest wave of COVID-19 cases.

Across the three regional hospitals, only 18 beds remain available and some of those are also currently unusable as they're in outbreak areas

Hospital leaders provided a somber picture of what is currently happening on the frontlines Tuesday morning, worried about what the Omicron wave will do to them in the coming weeks.

Administrators concerned with hospital staff burning out as the community gets ready to deal with the Omicron variant

Waterloo Region hospitals are bracing for increased COVID-19 hospitalizations and admissions into intensive care units as the Omicron variant spreads.

Waterloo region's three hospitals are preparing for the next wave of COVID-19, but they say the community needs to know health-care workers are exhausted and hospitals are nearly full to capacity, so people need to help curb the spread of the Omicron variant.

Waterloo region logs 59 new cases of COVID-19 The president and CEO of Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH), Patrick Gaskin, has expressed concern over the high per cent positivity rate of COVID-19 as Waterloo region reported 59 more cases on Monday. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jun 28, 2021 3:37 PM ET | Last Updated: June 28 According to Waterloo Region Public Health, there are currently 466 active cases of COVID-19 in the region.(Paula Duhatschek/CBC)

  KITCHENER -- A Cambridge nursing home is now the site of one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks that Waterloo Region has seen since the pandemic began. Steps are being taken to control the outbreak at Cambridge Country Manor long-term care home with the ongoing help of Cambridge Memorial Hospital. The facility has reported 114 cases since the outbreak was declared on Dec. 8: 60 in residents and 54 in staff. Ten people have died of COVID-19 there, including seven reported on Wednesday and ...