December 18: Daily COVID Update
- Publication
- kawarthaNOW.com, 18 Dec 2020
Description
- Creator
- Taylor, Jeannine, Publisher
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays.
Confirmed positive: 429, including 219 in Kawartha Lakes, 183 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 4 in Northumberland)
*Active cases: 52, including 7 in Kawartha Lakes and 45 in Northumberland (net decrease of 2)
Probable cases: 0 (no change)
High-risk contacts: 317, including 24 in Kawartha Lakes, 163 in Northumberland, and 5 in Haliburton (net increase of 7)
**Hospitalizations (total to date): 18, including 11 in Kawartha Lakes, 6 in Northumberland, and 1 in Haliburton (no change)
Deaths: 33 (no change)
Resolved: 357, including 193 in Kawartha Lakes, 137 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 5, including 2 in Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland)
***Institutional outbreaks: Extendicare Kawartha Lakes in Lindsay, Case Manor Care Community in Bobcaygeon (increase of 1)
*Two previously reported cases have been transferred to another health unit, reducing the case counts by 1 in Kawartha Lakes and by 1 in Northumberland.
**This total includes 118 high-risk contacts directly followed up through the Public Health Ontario contact tracing process that are missing the contacts’ county.
***An outbreak at Case Manor Care Community in Bobcaygeon was declared on December 17 after an employee tested positive - Publisher
- Jeannine Taylor
- Place of Publication
- Peterborough, ON
- Date of Original
- 18 Dec 2020
- Date Of Event
- 18 Dec 2020
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Ford, Doug, Premier
- Corporate Name(s)
- Ontario Hospital Association
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Kawartha Lakes Public LibraryEmail:lindsaylibrary@kawarthalakeslibrary.ca
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