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/ Napanee Today
Apr 6, 2021 10:18 AM
Visitors to The Duke Pub in Belleville on the afternoon/evening of April 2, are asked to self-isolate immediately and get tested for COVID-19, after a positive case of the virus was recently confirmed at the business.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health says anyone that was at the business on the afternoon/evening of April 2, is considered to a high-risk contact. (Investigation number 2238-2021-37424, for testing.)
The health unit is also asking anyone who visited the business from Mar. 30 to Apr. 1, to get tested for COVID-19 as a health precaution.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting another 176 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ottawa and one more person has died. This brings Ottawa s pandemic totals to 18,436 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 469 deaths among residents since the pandemic began. The weekly incidence rate of cases per 100,000 population continues to climb to record levels. This is the 13th straight day that Ottawa has reported a daily case count in the triple digits. It is the longest triple-digit case count streak of the pandemic so far. OPH also reported nine new cases of suspect COVID-19 varaints and one more death is linked to a variant of concern or mutation.
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Hinting that “further restrictions” could be coming as early as Wednesday after calls for a harder stance by the province, Premier Doug Ford said he is listening but fell short of showing his hand.
He did, however, launch Ontario’s second phase of Ontario’s heavily criticized vaccine rollout in a briefing Monday from Seneca College in Toronto.
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On the heels of the province enacting its emergency brake last Saturday shutting down and limiting sectors in the province, Ford said he was contemplating tougher measures, especially after witnessing large crowds roving through malls and parks in the province over Easter weekend.
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