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“Most non-Indigenous people are still under their first shot… This is an ongoing discrepancy between on-reserve and off-reserve people… Some reserves might have achieved herd immunity but other areas have not,” said Benedict.
Currently, neither St. Regis nor the MCA have achieved herd immunity. St. Regis reported 3,387 first does, 3,063 booster shots, for a total vaccination rate of 43.8 per cent. Benedict said the MCA has administered a total of 4,005 vaccine doses to its population of about 12,000, compared to the St. Regis population of about 11,000, bringing the blended rate to about 33 per cent.
Comparably, within the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region, medical officer of health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis pegged the number of people who’ve had at least one dose of vaccine at 53 per cent as of May 17, for a population just north of 202,000 people. The vast majority of EOHU residents vaccinated have not yet received their second dose, which lies in contrast
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“Most non-Indigenous people are still under their first shot… This is an ongoing discrepancy between on-reserve and off-reserve people… Some reserves might have achieved herd immunity but other areas have not,” said Benedict.
Currently, neither St. Regis nor the MCA have achieved herd immunity. St. Regis reported 3,387 first does, 3,063 booster shots, for a total vaccination rate of 43.8 per cent. Benedict said the MCA has administered a total of 4,005 vaccine doses to its population of about 12,000, compared to the St. Regis population of about 11,000, bringing the blended rate to about 33 per cent.
Comparably, within the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region, medical officer of health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis pegged the number of people who’ve had at least one dose of vaccine at 53 per cent as of May 17, for a population just north of 202,000 people. The vast majority of EOHU residents vaccinated have not yet received their second dose, which lies in contrast
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The number of active COVID-19 cases dropped under 200 within the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region on Tuesday afternoon, as 14 new cases were confirmed.
Two of the new cases are in Cornwall, two in North Glengarry, two in North Stormont, two in South Stormont, one in North Dundas, two in Russell, and three in Clarence-Rockland. The running total of COVID-19 cases is now at 4,581.
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Some 50 cases were set as resolved since Monday’s update, with the number of active cases in the region now at 172. There are 41 active cases in Cornwall, 10 in the northern portion of Akwesasne, five in South Glengarry, five in North Glengarry, 10 in North Stormont, 10 in South Stormont, one in South Dundas, five in North Dundas, 16 in Russell, seven in The Nation, three in East Hawkesbury, seven in Hawkesbury, one in Champlain, 10 in Alfred &