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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit confirmed 24 individuals have now tested positive for COVID-19 as a result of an outbreak at Skyline Lancelot Apartments on Lakeshore Drive, of which 18 have received a preliminary result for a variant of concern.
A statement Thursday from the health unit also confirmed 19 of the individuals who have tested positive live in the apartment building.
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The health unit says once a preliminary result of a variant of concern is identified, the sample undergoes further testing to determine the exact strain.
Long-term care commission says government still slow-walking some records By Iain Sherriff-Scott. Published on Feb 2, 2021 12:17pm A woman looks out the window of a long-term care home in Toronto in April. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star)
With its April deadline quickly approaching, Ontario’s commission investigating COVID in long-term care homes is “in a rush” to finish its full report, a person with knowledge of the investigation told iPolitics.
The commission is crunched for time because thousands of pages of records requested by investigators from the government were slow-walked, the commission said in a Dec. 9 letter to the Ministry of Long-Term Care. In that letter, the commission sought an extension from the government because of the delay obtaining records, which turned its request down, but pledged to fulfill outstanding record requests.
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Ontario’s minister of health and minister of long-term care will appear before a commission examining how COVID-19 spread in the province’s long-term care system.
The offices for both Health Minister Christine Elliott and Long-term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton confirmed on Monday they will be interviewed by the commission in the coming weeks.
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Both ministers had said they would appear before the independent body if requested.
The commission, which was announced by the province last summer, is expected to submit its final report on April 30.
Ontario's top doctor and ministers of health and long-term care will appear before a commission examining how COVID-19 spread in the province's long-term care system.
Posted: Jan 26, 2021 2:22 PM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Over 215 Ontario doctors and researchers have joined a campaign that s calling on the provincial government to abolish for-profit long-term care facilities. In this photos, crosses representing residents who died of COVID-19 adorn the lawn of Camilla Care Community, in Mississauga, Ont., on Jan. 13, 2021. The facility is among Ontario’s hardest-hit by the pandemic.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)