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TILLSONBRUG The first on-site Pfizer vaccinations have been given to those staff and residents who have not tested positive for COVID-19 at Maple Manor long…

The first on-site Pfizer vaccinations have been given to staff and residents – who have not tested positive for COVID-19 – at Maple Manor long term care…

Article content Two more residents of a hard-hit Tillsonburg nursing home – an 86-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman – have died of COVID-19, raising the death toll at Maple Manor to 11. The public health unit for Oxford and Elgin counties also reported Monday more than 85 per cent of residents at the Tillsonburg care home have now contracted the potentially deadly virus. Southwestern public health officials said 80 of the 92 residents at the privately owned home – or almost 87 per cent – have now been diagnosed with COVID-19. Forty-five of the home’s staff have also contracted ...

Two more residents of a hard-hit Tillsonburg nursing home – an 86-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman – have died of COVID-19, raising the death toll at

Article content The president of a Tillsonburg nursing home battling the area’s largest COVID-19 outbreak said he is “devastated” by the number of cases in the home. George Kaniuk is the president of Maple Manor, a family-owned long-term care home. The home now has more than 90 cases among residents and staff — the largest of several care home outbreaks in the Elgin and Oxford county area — and four residents of the home have died as a result of an outbreak declared mid-December. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Maple Manor head prais...