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New staff case at Terrace Lodge
Elgin County announced that a staff member at Terrace Lodge long-term care home in Malahide had tested positive for COVID-19. Currently, one other staff member is diagnosed with an ongoing case. Other previous staff cases at Terrace Lodge have been resolved. At Elgin Manor long-term care home in Southwold, two residents had previously been infected,…
Read MoreCOVID numbers still rising at Maple Manor
Southwestern Public Health reported on Saturday, Jan. 9, that 69 residents of Maple Manor Nursing Home were infected with ongoing cases of COVID-19, up from 58 the previous day. The home has a capacity of 92 residents in total, and nine have died there. In addition, 43 staff members have COVID-19, up from 41 on…
Read MoreTwo more deaths at Maple Manor
Southwestern Public Health on Friday, Jan. 8, reported two more deaths linked to COVID-19 at the Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg, bringing the total number of fatalities from an outbreak there to nine. The dead are both women, one in her 80s and one in her 90s. Currently, 58 residents and 41 staff members have…
Read MoreOnline learning only for elementary pupils
The Ontario Ministry of Education announced on Thursday, Jan. 7, that elementary schoolchildren in Southern Ontario won’t go back to attending classes in person until Monday, Jan. 25. The move was in response to the “alarming rate” at which new COVID-19 cases were being confirmed across Ontario, the government said in a statement. Instead, pupils…
Read MoreFive more COVID-linked deaths
The number of confirmed ongoing cases of COVID-19 in the Southwestern Public Health region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford dropped considerably on Thursday, Jan. 7, to 356 from 402 on the previous day, but the number of deaths links to the virus rose to 28 from 23. Three of the deaths were at Maple…
Read MoreAylmer Police serve summons on Church of God
Aylmer Police served a summons to Aylmer Church of God on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 6, for allegedly violating COVID-19 pandemic emergency orders, and a crowd of members was there to greet officers. When an Aylmer Express photographer went to the church at 4:30 p.m. after a report of activity there, he stopped well south of…
Read MoreFour more COVID-19 cases at Maple Manor
Southwestern Public Health on Wednesday, Jan. 6, was reporting four additional confirmed cases at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg, which is battling a serious outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The number of residents confirmed to have the virus rose to 56 Wednesday from 55 Tuesday, and staff cases to 39 from 35. Four residents…
Read MoreCOVID-19 by the numbers
The number of confirmed ongoing cases of COVID-19 in Tillsonburg and area surged to triple digits, a first for any community in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Southwestern Public Health reported the number of cases there surged to 107 on Tuesday from 94 on Monday, most related to an outbreak at…
Read MoreSeven deaths in 36 hours linked to COVID-19
Southwestern Public Health Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joyce Lock on Tuesday morning, Jan. 5, announced seven deaths had occurred in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford linked to COVID-19 in just the previous 36 hours. That brings the total number of fatalities in the Southwestern region to 23. Six deaths were related to institutional outbreaks,…
Read MoreCharged with disturbing a religious service
Aylmer Police have charged a Sparta man, 34, with disturbing a religious worship service held at Aylmer Church of God on John Street North in Aylmer on Sunday, Jan. 3. Police Chief Zvonko Horvat reported that the service started at 10:30 a.m. Police were alerted to a disturbance created when the Sparta man became engaged…
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