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The province has enacted a temporary emergency order to help deal with the third wave of COVID-19.
The amendment happened under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act
(EMCPA) and allows hospitals to transfer patients to either long-term care or retirement homes without obtaining consent of the patient or their substitute decision maker.
“The spread of COVID-19 variants continues to pose a significant threat to our health system’s critical care capacity and the lives of Ontarians,” said Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “While this is an extremely difficult decision to make, the consequences of not doing so could be devastating if we don’t have the hospital beds we urgently need to care for the growing number of COVID-19 patients. Building on the more than 3,400 beds that have been added to the system since the beginning of the pandemic, our government will continue to take all necessary actions to ensure Ontarians have
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Health officials report another decline in the number of active cases.
Five new cases of coronavirus were reported Wednesday inside the Thunder Bay District Health Unit as well as ten cases that have been deemed as resolved.
The active case count is 61:
Four cases obtained from someone else who had COVID-19
One cases was obtained through travel outside of Northwestern Ontario
In Ontario 3,480 new cases of coronavirus along with 24 deaths.
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THUNDER BAY The number of COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre continues to fall.
TBRHSC reported on Monday that it now has only seven patients who have tested positive for the virus.
This is two fewer than on Friday.
Only one of the COVID patients is currently in the intensive care unit.
The hospital also reported that, over the past week, it has received no patient transfers from other parts of Ontario.
TBRHSC has contingency plans to accept patients from other hospitals if directed by the Ontario Critical Care Command Table.
The hospital s current occupancy rate is 80 per cent.
Health officials report ten new cases as well as eleven cases with variants of concern. No new deaths from Sunday and Monday in the Thunder Bay Distri.