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Two ottavios died after contracting COVID-19, Ottawa Public Health reported Monday, bringing the total number of lives claimed by COVID-19 in Ottawa to 276.
With 60 new cases registered on the last day, the number of active cases in the city rises to 523, which includes another 10 people who have been hospitalized for the disease, two of whom are in intensive care.
No new institutional outbreaks of the virus were reported on the last day, leaving the current number of outbreaks in 25: 11 LTC households, two nursing homes, 10 child care centers, a school and a networked care center operated through Riverview Developmental Services.
At 10:30 a. m. on Monday, Queensway Carleton Hospital announced that the COVID-19 care clinic west of Moodie Street had reached its place by that day.
“Thank you for your patience as the region continues to add more capacity,” the hospital tweeted.
Ottawa Public Health will install an emerging verification site at Monsignor Paul Baxter School on Student-only Mondays and Tuesdays and is not open to the general public.
The elementary school closed due to an outbreak of COVID-19 after two staff members and two academics tested positive.
The Wabano Center for Aboriginal Health plans to operate a short-term check on Monday and Tuesday at its center on its way to Montreal for the First Nations, Inuit and Métis, by appointment only.
Provincial
Ontario’s fall preparedness plan to combat COVID-19 and flu season is “very comprehensive” and will be shared over several days, Health Minister Christine Elliott said.
Its progression is taking place over several months, on the basis that the autumn iteration of COVID-19 “is going to be more complicated to handle than the first wave”.
On the one hand, it coincides with flu season and, on the other hand, there is a buildup of surgeries and medical procedures that the government needs to see canceled again, Elliott said.
“We also ask a lot to do that, either from the federal government or from within. “
“We’ve planned the worst and we’re in a position to do it, and everything else. “
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford used his press convention to include the federal government in a long list of provincial priorities before Wednesday’s Federal Throne Address.
This includes a significant increase in Canada’s Health Transfer, strengthening Ontario’s problematic long-term care system, more active participation in COVID-19 testing, and a more active application of quarantine needs for those entering Canada.
“The risk of a momentary wave, addressing surgical delays, ending fitness care in the hallways, and building more long-term care beds for our seniors— those are critical challenges. And we’re doing our thing here in Ontario,” Ford said.
He promised that the main points of his government’s “fall preparedness plan” would be released this week.
“But we want Ottawa’s support, and we want it now. “
A reporter also asked Elliott if government messages replace to deter others without symptoms or exposed to COVID-19 from getting tested, given overwhelming demand at some test sites.
“In fact, we need those who are involved in COVID-19 to have the check,” Elliott said, adding that pharmacies “would probably be an appropriate position to send asymptomatic people” when this check street is online.
For its part, Ottawa Public Health has begun to emphasize the limitations of asymptomatic testing, and anyone who wants to be examined, OPH recommends it only to others with symptoms or known as close contacts of a proven case of COVID-19.
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate medical director of health, noted that “testing is important, but it’s not the ultimate solution. “
Preventing COVID-19 infection is the ultimate domain of interest, he said.
“I think other people have let their guard take over, there’s been some complacency,” Yaffe said, noting that more than 50% of cases now involve people in their 20s and 39s.
“People faint with friends, they don’t wear masks, they think — oh, he’s my friend, he’s given to be okay. “
Yaffe also explained that the province is not a complete return to Stage 2, but express measures for the region.
“We are very familiar with numbers, knowledge and keep in touch with local fitness medical officials. And our public fitness measurement team is working very actively on what needs to be done to mitigate the spread of this infection. “
Meanwhile, Ford had harsh words for the organizers of a rally in a Hamilton parking lot on Saturday, in flagrant violation of provincial boundaries at rallies.
“I just don’t get it. If we’re not that late in MRIs, I’ll send you to the MRI to scan your brain because I don’t think there’s anything there. We’re spreading protocols, and they’re brazenly ignoring them. “
Ontario reported Monday that another 425 people tested positive for COVID-19, the number of new cases in the province since early June.
This includes 60 new cases in Ottawa, 84 in Peel and 175 in Toronto. In Ontario, the Health Units of Renfrew and Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties and districts reported a new case, the Eastern Ontario Health Board reported five, and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington reported.
The province also reported that two other people died after contracting COVID-19. The number of active instances across the province is now 3,299 (compared to just over 2,000 a week ago), adding another 65 people in the hospital, 22 in the ICU and 12 in fans.
Twenty-three long-term care homes in Ontario are dealing with active outbreaks of the virus, according to knowledge compiled through the Ministry of Long-Term Care. This includes West End Villa, the house in Ottawa with the largest ongoing outbreak in the province. where the eleventh death of a resident was reported through the house operator on Sunday night.
According to the provincial school tracking website, 19 Ottawa schools now have at least one member of the network who tested positive for COVID-19 (11 French Catholic schools, 4 French public schools and 4 English-speaking Catholics).
quebec
Quebec reported on Monday 586 new cases of COVID-19, the largest one-day accumulation in the number of cases in the province since May 23, including 31 new cases in Ottawa.
No new COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Quebec on the last day, however, 3 that occurred last week were added to the province’s pandemic death toll, which is now five 804.
Three regions of Quebec (Montreal, the Quebec City region, and the Chaudiére-Appalachian region) have received an orange prestige in the province’s four-step color-coded alert system, which assigns the region a color (green, yellow, orange, or red). based on the prestige of the pandemic in that geographical area, and prescribes more or less stringent public aptitude standards according to the prestige of the area.
Lower participation limits were implemented for indoor meetings and stricter restrictions on bar seats and places to eat and in the sale of alcohol in newly orange areas.
Throughout the province, the number of others allowed to attend rallies in closed public places (such as places of worship or rental rooms) has increased from 250 to 50, and in orange spaces to 25.
Health Minister Christian Dubé asked others in orange spaces to restrict their contact with others as much as you can imagine and to avoid traveling to parts of the province classified as low-risk spaces.
Ottawa has lately had a “yellow” or “early warning” state.
– With Canadian and postmedia press archives
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