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COVID-19 update for Monday, Jan. 17
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…
Read MoreUpdate on Terrace Lodge outbreak
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…
Read MorePop-up clinic at police college Friday, Jan. 21
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…
Read MoreEleven COVID-19 deaths in one week
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…
Read MoreOne COVID-linked death; virus continues to invade long-term care homes
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.…
Read MoreVaccination clinics to be offered in schools
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…
Read MoreFour COVID-19 deaths in last 24 hours
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…
Read MoreElgin County acknowledges first COVID-19 death in one of its long-term care homes
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,…
Read MoreThree COVID-19 deaths in one day
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…
Read MoreTwo more COVID-19 deaths
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…
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