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EXETER – Huron Perth Public Health (HPPH) declared the COVID-19 outbreak at Exeter Villa Retirement Living and Long-Term Care Home over as of Jan. 24.
“We are very pleased to declare this outbreak over and want to commend the staff for their hard work and dedication during this challenging time,” said HPPH’s medical officer of health Dr. Miriam Klassen.
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The facility experienced a total of 50 confirmed cases. On the long-term side, there were 36 total confirmed cases in residents and 11 confirmed cases in staff.
Thunder Bay Mayor Bill Mauro (TBNewswatch file)
THUNDER BAY Mayor Bill Mauro is once again expressing grave concerns about the future of Thunder Bay s Bombardier plant.
The plant will fall under new ownership on Friday, when the sale of Bombardier Transportation to France-based Alstom is completed.
Bombardier and union officials alike have warned that the facility is in dire need of new contracts.
Mauro raised the issue this week in an online discussion with Ontario transportation minister Caroline Mulroney.
In an interview Wednesday, the mayor said There are some red flags for me, I don t mind saying, as there are with a number of other people who are working on the file.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on every sector of Ontario’s health-care system.
Facing a pre-existing mental health crisis and rocked by necessary provincial regulations to curb the spread of the virus, the mental health and addictions sector in Northern Ontario is no different.
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Anticipating challenges at the onset of the pandemic, health-care professionals were hard at work on a project that sought to unite siloed health-care networks to ensure service continuity during the pandemic.
The Integrated Mobile Police Assessment Crisis Team (IMPACT), which launched on Jan. 4, will feature a police officer paired with a crisis worker based at the police station to respond to mental health calls for service to police for 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
The joint mobile crisis response team, which has been in place for nearly three years, has workers sent from the mental health association s headquarters to join police officers at the scene of calls. That two-person team will continue to operate.
Jennifer Hyslop, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Mental Health branch in Thunder Bay, described the IMPACT project as the next logical step for the partnership.
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Outbreaks at Caressant Care’s long-term care and retirement home in Listowel have been linked to the deaths of two more residents, public health officials confirmed Wednesday.
The outbreaks, declared at the retirement home Jan. 7 and an adjoining long-term care home Jan. 10, have now killed 12 people, increasing the number of COVID-related deaths in Huron and Perth counties since March to 38.
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According to numbers from Huron Perth public health published Wednesday, data that’s up to date as of 1:30 p.m. the day before, the outbreaks have infected 73 residents and 35 staff members.