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The COVID-19 outbreak at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre, appears to be slowing down.
Janna-Lea Yawney is the Interim Director of Acute Care for the Yorkton area, and says there are 97 cases connected to the outbreak, slightly up from 90 last week.
“14 of those are patients, 45 are secondary cases, 32 are staff, and 6 are visitors,” said Yawney.
Yawney says the two suspected outbreaks at the 2nd West Obstetrics and 2nd South Pediatric and Medicine Units have been lifted, since no additional cases have been linked to those areas.
She also says the declared outbreaks in the 1st East and West Medical Units and the Intensive Care Unit continue to show no further transmission of COVID-19.
Betty Leona Brezinski of Yorkton, formerly of Invermay, passed away peacefully at her home in Aspen Bluff Villa, Yorkton on Sunday, January 1, 2017. She was 83 years of age. Betty was born on November 16, 1933 on the family farm in the Buchanan District, the daughter of Joseph and Anna (Wolkowski) Soloski. Her siblings were Rudy, Joyce, Al and Bronoslaw, who died in infancy. She completed grade 9 at Buchanan School and at the age of 16 ventured to Winnipeg to work as a receptionist at St. Joseph s Hospital. About a year later she returned home and became a teller at the Royal Bank in Invermay. In May 1952 Betty met the love of her life, Marion, at a Feast Day celebration at St. Andrew s Church, north of Invermay. In October of that same year Betty became Marion s wife at St. Ann s R.C. Church, Buchanan. After working for a short time in Westburn, MB, Marion and Betty returned to tend to Marion s family farm, 10 miles NE of Invermay and care for his younger siblings; Tony, Louis and
YORKTON A total of 91 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in relation to an outbreak at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre. Janna-Lea Yawney, the director of acute care at the hospital, said as of 4 a.m. on Feb. 5, 60 of those total cases are considered recovered, including 25 staff, leaving 31 cases active. The cases include 14 patients, 32 staff, six visitors and 39 secondary cases. Two suspected outbreaks, in the obstetrics and pediatrics units, have been lifted. That was very exciting news because that tells us that we re going the right direction, said Yawney. Yawney said “every room is open for business” and the hospital is still offering services to the community.