Two new COVID-19 deaths at Maple Manor: public health

The health authority has eight outbreaks at nursing homes and long-term care facilities. There are 135 resident and 95 staff cases in the region, with the bulk being at Maple Manor and PeopleCare Tavistock.

Greg Colgan
Jan 13, 2021  •  4 days ago  •  2 minute read
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. PHOTO BY SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press

Two more Maple Manor residents – an 82-year-old man and a 96-year-old man – have died during the outbreak that has ravaged the Tillsonburg nursing home, bringing the total of COVID-related deaths there to 13.

The hard-hit long-term care home now has 80 resident and 48 staff cases since the outbreak was declared on Dec. 12.

PeopleCare Tavistock also continued to be in outbreak with 40 resident and 33 staff cases. That long-term care home has reported seven deaths since their outbreak began Dec. 16.

The health unit for Oxford and Elgin counties also reported 40 new infections Wednesday, as well as 41 recoveries, dropping the number of active cases in the region to 362.

There have been 1,865 cumulative confirmed cases in the Southwestern public health region since the pandemic was declared. Of those, 1,466 have been resolved while 37 people have died. There have been 21 COVID-related deaths in the region since Jan. 1, highlighting the growing impact of the pandemic’s second wave.

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There are active cases in all 16 area municipalities in Southwestern public health’s coverage area.

Between Jan. 3 and Jan. 9 there were 5,081 tests completed in the Southwestern public health area with six per cent coming back positive.

In the same time frame, area hospitals reported 3.5 per cent of people visiting emergency rooms were coming in for fever, cough and shortness of breath.

In Ontario, there were 2,961 new cases and 3,392 reported recoveries as of Tuesday morning. There were also 74 deaths, bringing the provincial total to 5,127.

There were 1,674 hospitalizations in the province as of Wednesday, including 385 patients in intensive care.

There have been 144,784 vaccine doses administered as of Wednesday morning and 8,778 people have received both doses, according to provincial data.

Active cases in Southwestern public health region as of Wednesday

  • Tillsonburg – 117
  • St. Thomas – 67
  • Woodstock – 42
  • Aylmer – 38
  • Norwich Township – 34
  • East Zorra-Tavistock – 16
  • Ingersoll – 13
  • South-West Oxford – 8
  • Bayham – 6
  • Zorra – 6
  • Central Elgin – 6
  • West Elgin – 4
  • Southwold – 2
  • Dutton Dunwich – 1
  • Malahide – 1
  • Blandford-Blenheim – 1