An outbreak of COVID-19 continues to spread through Fairfield Park. According to Chatham-Kent Public Health, the Wallaceburg long term care facility now has 71 cases affecting staff and residents.
CEO Lori Marshall says Health Alliance has redeployed a number of staff to support the long term care facility.
“We’ve got four housekeepers and a housekeeping supervisor, five personal support workers, we have an infection prevention and control individual, and just recently we’ve added a patient care manager into the mix.
A number of partner agencies have also been lending support where they can.
“Some of our counterparts at EMS have been in providing support, the Alzheimer’s Society has identified some individuals to go in there, and the LHIN Home and Community Care,” Marshall says. “It really is a whole community effort. This is an example of the what is probably the best part of Chatham-Kent, we help our neighbours.”
Meantime, there is one new case in the CKHA medicine unit outbreak, with a total of 17 confirmed cases connected to outbreaks in both the medicine units and the hospital’s COVID unit.
Overall, Chatham-Kent’s active caseload has risen to 127 with 12 new infections being reported today and four recoveries.
Although the daily increase in Public Health’s numbers is one more than the Fairfield Park and CKHA outbreak stats would suggest, Jeff Moco with the communications team says one of the people affected by the outbreaks is not a Chatham-Kent resident.
As per CKPHU, “Total case counts for institutional and school outbreaks can be residents/students/children or staff in these settings and may include people who live outside of Chatham-Kent who would not be captured in the total confirmed cases among Chatham-Kent residents in other sections of this report.”
Checking around the region, six more people have died because of COVID in the Windsor-Essex area. The health unit is also reporting another 39 new cases of the virus.
Lambton County’s numbers have dipped again, down to 61 active cases with only three new infections being reported today and an additional 10 recoveries.
Province-wide, Ontario is reporting 1172 new cases and another 67 deaths linked to the virus. As with yesterday, the Ministry of Health says changes to how Toronto Public Health reports its data is expected to cause fluctuations in case numbers for the next few days.
