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The medical director of health, Dr. Vera Etches, showed Friday that Ottawa is at a time in the COVID-19 pandemic, in reaction to a CTV Ottawa media consultation on Friday.
“We’re seeing an accumulation in cases and it’s the accumulation rate we’re involved in. “
However, Etches later explained that the “second wave” necessarily means that transmission of the virus reaches crisis levels. In fact, Ottawa already experienced a small increase in transmission in July, he said.
“To flatten it, keep a little bump, ” said Etches.
Ottawa Public Health reported 63 new instances of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total number of active instances in the city to 458.
This includes 11 other people in the hospital, none of whom are in extensive care units. Since the onset of the pandemic, 3486 cases of COVID-19 and 273 deaths have been reported locally.
There are currently 23 ongoing virus outbreaks in local institutions, a backlog of two in the last day. The new outbreaks occur in a Wee Watch West House and Tunney’s Daycare daycare, involving one case in a child and one case in a member. , respectively.
Ottawa offers a number of amenities to use as COVID-19 verification sites, said Mayor Jim Watson, who told Prime Minister Doug Ford Friday that there will have to be a “pivot” in the messages to keep other asymptomatic people away from the long queues.
“Everyone is pushed to the limit (and) we want more geographically dispersed facilities,” Watson said in an interview.
The mayor said the new sites were being completed and expects them to be announced next week.
“We don’t run the test system, however, if we can help deliver those services for free, we will,” Watson said.
Brewer Arena is the city’s most important assessment center for COVID-19 and in recent days families have started queuing early for secure pre-closing control. Other checkpoints on Moodie Drive and Heron Road were also flooded.
Watson said fitness officials had told him that up to 90% of the other people in the ranks had no symptoms.
Watson said Ottawa Public Health has mobilized to help, but that the number one duty of testing lies with the hospital system.
“To honor now, and I’ve spoken to the four hospital presidents, they sense urgency and frustration and want to solve this problem. “
While the city remains in an emergency situation, Watson said there is no need for logistical assistance from the military, as there were still no more sites to set up control facilities.
Meanwhile, two schools in Ottawa will be visited through COVID-19 cellular verification sites this weekend, and checks will only be done for staff and academics with symptoms or school members who have been known as high-risk contacts of a case shown. and they haven’t been tested yet.
One of the emerging sites appears to be Franco-West Catholic College, one of the leading French Catholic schools in Nepean, where the province has reported 3 cases of COVID-19 among students.
The site of the moment, for De La Salle High School and students, was established in Jules Morin Park and will also operate from Friday to Sunday, according to an OPH notice to families. Two other people related to De La Salle, adding a member, tested positive for COVID-19 according to provincial data.
In a message to the newspaper, Health Ontario explained that 3 cell detection groups have been deployed in Ottawa “in specific spaces with a known prevalence,” adding some schools where academics tested positive for COVID-19.
“Ottawa Public Health supports these groups by running with schools and families who may want a check in schools. It is vital that the public does not look for these pop-ups as they have limited capacity and focus on the school population. “
The location of these cell groups “could replace in the coming days and weeks as needed; they can continue to target schools or other rapid centers whose prevalence is known, or they can be established near an evaluation center that is experiencing very high volumes in order to increase a wider population. “
Ontario Health will work with local partners to “identify new options that can benefit from those teams,” he said.
The third team appears to have moved to Heron Road Care Clinic on Friday to load more capacity on site.
Today, the COVID-19 Care Clinic team in Ottawa East on Heron Rd is pleased to welcome the additional capacity created through the emerging cell check, OntarioHealthOH. By working together, we can deal with queues and COVID-19!Pic. twitter. com/g5d2V9QGYY
A fitness medical officer in east Ontario has stated that the slowness of time for COVID-19 laboratory tests is hampering the local public’s physical fitness efforts to seek contacts and outbreaks.
Renfrew County and District Health Office Acting Health Medical Officer Dr. Robert Cushman says universal COVID-19 screening has led to primary disorders such as expired samples and verification effects that take more than seven days on returning, and recommended for “strategic check. “
He says slow response times in Ottawa Labs, where the fitness workplace sends its samples for repair, have hampered investigations into COVID-19 cases at a local school and a popular gymnasium.
“Making universal tests is bad science, but it’s a smart policy,” he says.
Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer for health, criticized the slow delays in Ottawa.
“I’ve heard of big delays in getting effects and that’s not acceptable,” Williams said.
He said the city’s laboratories, which are overseen through ottawa Hospital, face “logistical disorders that seek to resolve. “The hospital did not comment.
Meanwhile, Western Moodie Drive Care Clinic closed its line around nine a. m. , shortly after its opening, as the site had reached its maximum capacity for the day.
Provincial
Regarding the call in development for COVID-19 testing, Prime Minister Doug Ford said Friday that he hoped that until next week, “we will have many pharmacies in the system. “
But, despite an earlier request from Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to replace the message to deter other asymptomatic people from adding to long queues of checks, Ford spoke of “other asymptomatic people, who would possibly be anxious, need to check – God bless them, check. “
“We’re going to be in an Array position . . . I can tell you that I’m driving the formula like no one has before in Ontario. “
“We can’t paint at the speed of government, we have to paint at the speed of COVID. “
Ford also noted that new personal collection limits in Ottawa, Toronto and Peel (up to 10 more people in indoor collections, 25 outside) will be deployed elsewhere in the province at the request of local mayors and health medical officials.
For the first time since mid-June, the number of new instances of COVID-19 in Ontario exceeded 400 on Friday, and another 401 people tested positive throughout the province.
This includes 130 other people in Toronto and 82 in Peel.
There are now 2,652 active instances of COVID-19 across the province, adding another 58 people in the hospital, 20 in the ICU and 10 in fans.
No new COVID-19-like deaths were reported in Ontario on the last day.
Ford also spoke protracted Friday about his goal of making sure non-public help personnel are paid more, a key detail to make sure that staff retention in long-term care homes is taken into account to save you the time of the COVID wave. -19 to cause the deaths caused by the first wave.
“PSWs in the province of Ontario are underpaid, overworked and until we raise wages, which we are doing, because I’m all over the physical care sector right now to get this through the Treasury so soon As possible, we (can ”). t) attract more people, “Ford said.
It also targets “everyone else who can complain about their work. “
“Really, in environments? Start hunting down some of the other heroes who worked their backs to save our most vulnerable. “
Apart from Ottawa, the East Ontario Health Board is the only one in east Ontario reporting an increase in cases over the next day, with 3 new cases reported.
According to the provincial monitoring website COVID-19 in schools, there are now 18 schools in Ottawa with at least one case shown: 10 schools in the French Catholic Council, 4 in the French Public Council and 4 in the English-speaking Catholic Council. .
Only one school in Ontario has been closed due to COVID-19 cases, and that’s Fellowes High School in Pembroke. According to the Renfrew District and County Department of Health, the outbreak has lately reached 4 members and one student.
On Thursday, the fitness workplace reviewed 83 and 15 students from the school, and on Friday organized an emerging verification clinic for the rest of the students and the school.
National
Canada’s prime ministers are calling on the federal government to slowly increase its contribution to Canada’s Health Transfer by $28 billion to increase its contribution to provincial and territorial fitness spending to 35% and that percentage in the coming years.
“We have noticed that fitness services prices are overwhelming as a result of this pandemic,” Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said at a news convention with other conservative prime ministers.
From the arrears of surgeries to the desire to expand hospitals and long-term care, “we can’t stand it. We have a formula that’s in fitness care,” Ford said.
“This is a blow opposed to a specific political band, party or government; this, my friends, has been going on for decades. “
Ford said he’s looking for next week’s Throne speech through the federal government.
“I can’t be clearer: we want your support, we desperately want your support. “
Dr Howard Njoo, deputy director of public health, said Friday that it was too early to say that the country was experiencing a “second wave” of COVID-19 infections, but “the trend is definitely going that way. “
“I respect Dr. Etches (from Ottawa), she has the facts and the information,” Njoo said.
However, he noted that rates vary significantly from county to county, with “worrying” increases in cases in the country’s 4 largest provinces.
The Ontario-designed COVID alert notification app is fully operational in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick on Friday.
Users of the application in the two provinces that tested positive for COVID-19 get a single key that they can use to tell other users of the application that they would possibly have been in close contact with a potential COVID-19 patient.
To date, 4 provinces have followed the request. Ontario was the first to adopt it, followed by Newfoundland and Labrador.
Prime Minister Francois Legault reiterated the unanimous fear of the National Assembly of the province about the coverage of the knowledge of the users of the application and left the door open for possible adoption of the application in the future.
The creators of the app claim that it does not collect identifiable data from its users.
The leader of Bloc Québécois, Yves-Fran’ois Blanchet, conducted COVID-19 tests, according to the match.
Blanchet is already in solitary confinement after a staff member diagnosed him or her with the disease. In a statement, Blanchet said he felt healthy.
As expected, Public Security Minister Bill Blair announced Friday that the Canada-U. S. border will be in the middle of the U. S. But it’s not the first time It will be closed until 21 October.
The mutual ban has been in force since 21 March. It does not limit industry, industry and employees to the maximum.
As of Friday morning, Health Canada reported a total of 140,887 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and there are 8,558 cases across the country.
There are 9, 200 dead.
quebec
Ottawa will be one of 8 regions of Quebec that will receive special attention during a weekend of repression across the province to ensure that bars and restaurants, and their consumers, meet public fitness rules. The 8 regions, adding Montreal, are on yellow alert in the province’s new color-coded pandemic prevention system.
More than 1000 bars and restaurants will be visited. Violators can face fines of between $400 and $6,000.
The Minister of Public Safety, Genevieve Guilbault, said the effort would focus on rallies and parties in private homes, and that the police needed a court order to enter.
Quebec reported 297 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death on Friday. Ottawa is guilty of nine of these new cases, while the number of COVID-19 deaths in the region remains at 34.
Across the province, another 136 people are hospitalized with the disease, 30 of them in ICU.
On Wednesday, 29,726 Quebecers were evaluated for COVID-19, a new record, this is the last day for which detection knowledge is available.
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