Another COVID-19 death reported at Fairhaven
Nine residents have now recovered and been moved out of isolation; three new cases confirmed in community
A resident of Fairhaven long-term-care home who had tested positive for COVID-19 has now died, the municipally run facility reported Monday afternoon.
It’s the third COVID-19-related death at Fairhaven this month and the fifth death related to the virus in Peterborough city and county, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation since the pandemic began in March. The first two deaths at Fairhaven were a man in his 90s and a woman in her 90s.
Seven residents of the Dutton Road facility have also fully recovered and were being moved out of an isolation unit by the end of Monday, Fairhaven also reported, which will leave six active resident cases.
That makes nine Fairhaven residents who have now recovered since the outbreak began on Oct. 31, according to executive director Lionel Towns.
Another staff member has also fully recovered and is returning to work Tuesday morning, Fairhaven also reported, which will leave two active staff member cases.
There have been no new positive cases as of Monday at Fairhaven.
The outbreak cases at Fairhaven include a woman in her 20s, a woman in her 50s, a woman in her 70s, two men in their 80s, three women in their 80s, a man in his 90s, three women in their 90s, Public Health Ontario had reported Monday morning.
Three new cases in Peterborough
Three new confirmed cases in Peterborough city and county, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation were reported Monday afternoon by Peterborough Public Health.
Six cases have also been resolved as of Monday, leaving 17 active cases. There have now been 195 cumulative confirmed cases in the jurisdiction, with 173 resolved, five deaths and 17 active cases.
The jurisdiction now has a cumulative rate of 131.8 cases per 100,000 people, less than one-fifth of the provincial average of 749.2 cases per 100,000 people as of Monday.
The health unit is also monitoring 50 people who are considered at high risk because of close contact with a confirmed case.
The other active cases in Peterborough include a female under 20, a man in his 20s, a woman in her 20s, a man in his 30s, a man in his 40s, two women in their 40s, a woman in her 60s, Public Health Ontario had reported Monday morning, but no specific information was available from authorities on how they had contracted the virus.
Fairhaven has the only COVID-19 outbreak in the jurisdiction.
More than 36,150 residents, about 24.4 per cent or nearly one in four, have been tested at least once for the virus, the health unit also reported Monday afternoon.
Peterborough moved into the yellow protect zone Monday with tighter pandemic restrictions, particularly for bars and restaurants, after having been in the green prevent zone.
Six cases in Northumberland, one each in City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton
Six new confirmed cases of COVID -19 in Northumberland and one new case in each of the City of Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton County were reported Monday by the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit.
The jurisdiction, which remains in the green prevent zone, now has 286 cumulative confirmed cases with13 of them active.
The City of Kawartha Lakes has now had 192 cumulative confirmed cases, with one of them active; Northumberland County has had 69 cases with 10 active and Haliburton County has had 25 cases with two active.
The active cases include a man in his 20s who contracted the virus through travel, a woman in her 20s, a man in his 30s who contracted the virus through an outbreak, two other men in their 30s, a woman in her 30s, a man in his 40s, a woman in her 40s, a man in his 50s, two woman in their 60s, three men in their 70s.