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Publishing date: Jan 29, 2021 • January 29, 2021 • 2 minute read • This handout file illustration image obtained Feb. 27, 2020 courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows the coronavirus, COVID-19. Photo by HANDOUT /Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The United Kingdom (UK) variant of COVID-19 has been identified in Haldimand-Norfolk and highlights the need to continue physical distancing and follow other measures, says Medical Officer of Health Dr. Shanker Nesathurai.
“The appearance of this more easily-transmittable variant of COVID-19 in Haldimand-Norfolk underscores the importance of continuing to follow public health guidance,” Nesathurai said in a statement released Friday. “Continue to keep your distance from others, wear a mask, wash your hands frequently and avoid having close contact with thos
Author of the article: Vincent Ball
Publishing date: Jan 28, 2021 • January 28, 2021 • 1 minute read •
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More than 1,300 people in Haldimand-Norfolk have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit on Thursday reported the locally tally of positive tests now stands at 1,306. That’s an increase of 10 positive tests reported by the health unit on Wednesday.
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Of those who have tested positive, 1,196 have recovered. There have been 38 COVID-19 related deaths in Haldimand-Norfolk since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The number of people in Haldimand and Norfolk who have tested positive for COVID-19 is nearing the 1,300-mark.
Figures on the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s website say 1,296 people have tested positive since the pandemic began. Of those, 1,170 have been resolved.
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The number of positive cases is up two from Tuesday when 1,294 people had tested positive since the start of the pandemic.
According to the health unit’s website, there are 83 active cases of COVID-19 in Haldimand-Norfolk. There have been 8,842 negative tests conducted for the virus and 38 people have died as a result of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 vaccines were given to residents and some staff at 18 long-term care homes and retirement homes in Haldimand and Norfolk last week.
But vaccination of some staff and health-care workers is on hold because of the looming nationwide shortage of shots.
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Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, medical officer of health for the Haldimand Norfolk Health Unit, said the Ministry of Health has told the health unit to temporarily pause immunizing anyone other than residents at long-term care and retirement homes due to the reduction in COVID-19 vaccine supply. This was in response to the news that Canada would receive no Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week.
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Publishing date: Jan 17, 2021 • January 17, 2021 • 1 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. PHOTO BY SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press
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Another person has died of COVID-19, figures provided by the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit say.
The figures, updated on Sunday, show there have been 38 COVID-19 deaths in Haldimand-Norfolk since the start of the pandemic. That’s one more death than has been recorded by the health unit on Saturday and second in three days.