Southwestern Public Health reported on Monday, Jan. 17, that 26 Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford residents were hospitalized with COVID-related cases, down by one from Friday, Jan. 14. Four area residents were in intensive care units Monday, down from seven Friday. And, for the first time in a week, the health unit announced no new…
Elgin County on Friday, Jan. 14, reported that Terrace Lodge long-term care home in Malahide remained in a COVID-19 outbreak with a total of 11 residents who have tested positive for the virus, four of which have since recovered, and three staff members, two of which have now recovered. One resident at Terrace Lodge died…
Southwestern Public Health announced Friday, Jan. 14, that a “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinic would be held at the Ontario Police College on Friday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. Another will be held at the Tillsonburg Community Centre on Tuesday, Jan. 25, during the same hours. Between them, the clinics will have 1,100…
A woman in her 80s residing at Valleyview Home, a long-term care facility in St. Thomas, on Friday, Jan. 14, became the 11th fatality related to COVID-19 in five days in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. Hers was the 128th such death in the Southwestern Public Health area since the pandemic began. Two deaths were…
Southwestern Public Health on Thursday, Jan. 13, announced the COVID-related death of a Woodstock woman, over 100 years old, who was a resident of Woodingford Lodge long-term care home. Hers was the 127th death in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the 10th area virus-related death since Monday, Jan. 10.…
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce, in an announcement Wednesday, Jan. 12, said that with children back in classes starting Monday, Jan. 17, vaccination clinics would be offered in schools to make immunizations as accessible to as many as possible. “We believe so strongly that children belong in school,” and the clinics would help that to…
Southwestern Public Health on Wednesday, Jan. 12, announced the deaths related to COVID-19 of four area residents, including a man in his 50s from Elgin, an Oxford man in his 60s, an Oxford woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s who was a resident at Secord Trails Care Community, a nursing home…
Elgin County late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 11, reported that it had been notified that a resident of its Terrace Lodge long-term care home had died in a COVID-19-related case. The death was the first of its kind in any of the county’s three long-term care homes since the COVID-19 pandemic began. County Warden Mary French,…
Southwestern Public Health announced three COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday, Jan. 11, all residents of long-term care or retirement homes, including a woman in her 90s at Terrace Lodge in Malahide, a woman in her 80s at Caressant Care on Bonnie Place in St. Thomas and a man in his 80s at Secord Trails in…
Southwestern Public Health announced on Monday, Jan. 10, that two women in Woodstock, one in her 60s and one in her 70s, had died as a result of COVID-19. The total number of deaths in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford since the pandemic began now stands at 119. Monday, 22 local residents were hospitalized due…
Elgin County, in an update Sunday, Jan. 9, reported that in addition to the four residents and two staff members confirmed to have COVID-19 at Terrace Lodge long-term care home in Malahide just east of Aylmer, two more residents have been confirmed to have the virus, and one more was suspected of having it.
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital on Friday night, Jan. 7, reported an outbreak of COVID-19 in its fifth floor Acute Medicine Unit, with three patients testing positive for the virus. “The unit is currently closed to essential caregivers,” the hospital said in a statement. “STEGH is working closely with Southwestern Public Health Unit and its…