Outbreak in Ontario Long-Term Care Home That Killed 70 People Declared Over
BARRIE, Ont. A long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., says a COVID-19 outbreak that killed 70 of its residents has been declared over.
Jarlette Health Services, which owns the Roberta Place nursing home, says the local health unit declared the outbreak over on Thursday.
The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in the U.K., sickened more than 200 people at the home.
It was first declared on Jan. 8.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, which Barrie is part of, is among 27 units in Ontario that were allowed to loosen pandemic measures on Tuesday.
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A devastating coronavirus outbreak at a long-term care home in Barrie has finally ended. Roberta place long-term care home said Thursday that the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has formally declared an end to the outbreak that ravaged the home during the second wave of the pandemic, leaving 71 people dead. An outbreak was declared at the home on Jan. 8. Since then, the highly contagious U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) tore through the home infecting more than 250 people, including all but one of the 127 residents. An essential caregiver who frequented the facility also died. “Over the course of the past six weeks, Roberta Place has been devastatingly impacted by the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus, which was responsible for a much higher rate of transmission at the home,” Roberta Place said in its statement. “This variant resulted in immense loss and illness amongst residents and team members and proved to be an extremely challenging outbreak to contain and overcome.”