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Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
Online Bulletin for Municipal Partners

April 27, 2021

To ensure everyone has current information, Hastings Prince Edward Public Health will be providing regular COVID-19 updates.

For more information please review our website or call 613-966-5500 or 1-800-267-2803.

Updates

Epidemiological

  • Hastings and Prince Edward Counties have 895 cumulative lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 79 active, 806 resolved and 9 deceased. There were 14 new cases reported today.
    • There is no local long-term care facility experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak; additional outbreak details can be found online.
    • More information is available on our website hpePublicHealth.ca
  • VOCs: 280
  • Vaccines administered to date:  63,932
  • Fully vaccinated individuals to date:  3,972
  • Ontario is reporting 3,265 cases and 29 new deaths as 34,000 tests are completed. There are 1,044 new cases in Toronto, 673 in Peel, 452 in York Region, 171 in Durham and 150 in Ottawa.

  • In Canada, as at April 26, 2021, there are 1,187,918 total cases of COVID-19 with 85,178 active cases and 1,078,716 recovered. To date, there have been 24,024 COVID-19 related deaths and more than 30,960,379 individuals tested.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 26, 2021

 

Report

Number

Percentage

Number of Cases

452,126

N/A

Change from previous day’s report (new cases)

3,265

0.7 increase

Resolved

404,248

89.4

Change from previous day’s report

3,908 1.0 increase

Total number of deaths

7,964

1.8

Total tests completed

13,945,631

N/A

Total test completed in the previous day

34,000

N/A

Currently under investigation

29,264

N/A

Summary of Cases in Ontario Schools - Updated April 27, 2021.

Schools are not being reported during the current period of remote learning.  Reporting will resume after in-person learning resumes.

 

Report

Number of New Cases

Cumulative Cases

School-related cases 

0

15,002

School-related student cases

0

11,315

School-related staff cases

0 2,515

Individual(s) not identified (other staff)

0

1,172

Current number of schools with a reported case

0 N/A

Current number of schools closed

0

N/A

 


Local Updates

Upcoming Vaccincation Clinics - 60+ years of age

Loyalist College - Belleville - 9 am to 4 pm - 60+ age group

  • Wednesday, April 28
  • Thursday, April 29
  • Monday, May 3 
  • Tuesday, May 4  (12 - 7 pm)
  • Wednesday, May 5

Madoc Township Hall - Eldorado - 9:30 am to 3:30 pm - 60+ age group

  • Wednesday, April 28

Duncan McDonald Memorial Community Centre - Trenton - 9 am to 4 pm - 60+ age group

  • Wednesday, April 28
  • Thursday, April 29  (12 - 7 pm)
  • Friday, April 30
  • Thursday, May 6

Bancroft Legion - Bancroft - 10 am - 3 pm - 60+ age group

  • Friday, April 30
  • Tuesday, May 4 - To be booked through Bancroft Family Health Team 

Check this link for local pharmacies providing AstraZeneca to Ages 40 and older.

$2.9 million in funding was announced by Bay of Quinte MPP Todd Smith on Sunday for the Addiction and Mental Health Services-Hastings Prince Edward Back to Home program.

  • The money is intended to move people with a history of addictions and mental health into as many as 30 new-build or retrofit housing units in Belleville that would be served by staff twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
  • This would ease pressure on Quinte Health Care as the number of available alternate level of care beds would increase.

May 3 - 9 is Mental Health Week 2021.  The there of this year's Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Mental Health Week is understanding our emotions. Recognizing, labeling and accepting our feelings are all part of protecting and promoting good mental health for everyone.


Provincial

Quick Summary of Provincial Developments:

  • Ontario has voted against paid sick leave bill, 20-55.
  • Pregnant people in Ontario now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine under 'highest risk' designation.
    • Pregnant individuals will still need to book their shot through the provincial call centre at
      1-888-999-6488.
  • A 54-year-old Quebec woman dies from blood clot after receiving Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Ontario expands booking to individuals 45 and over in hot spot communities - Licensed child care workers across Ontario eligible to book vaccine appointments this week

  • The Ontario government is expanding booking for COVID-19 vaccination appointments to individuals 45 and over in designated hot spot communities in 13 public health units, as identified by postal code, through its provincial booking system. Child care workers in licensed child care settings across the province will also be eligible to book their COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
  • Keeping child care open is critical to the mential health and well-being of children and in supporting working parents in Ontario. Effective Thursday, April 29, 2021, child care workers in licensed child care settings will be eligible to book an appointment through the Provincial Vaccine Booking Line number at 1-833-943-3900 or directly through public health units that use their own booking system. Eligible workers in licensed child care settings will receive a letter from their employer. This letter must be available at the point of booking and taken to the vaccination appointment. In the coming weeks, eligibility will be expanded to child care workers in unlicensed child care settings across the province.

9-1-1 models of care will provide the right care in the right place and protect hospital capacity

  • The Ontario government is launching new 9-1-1 models of care to now cover 33 municipalities across the province. These new models of care will ensure paramedics have more options to provide safe and appropriate treatment for patients while helping to protect hospital capacity as the province continues to respond to the third wave of COVID-19.
  • Currently, paramedics are required to bring 9-1-1 patients to overcrowded hospital emergency departments, even when there are other appropriate care and treatment options available in the community. Under the innovative patient care model pilots, eligible palliative care patients and those experiencing mental health and addictions challenges can receive appropriate care by the paramedic directly or in the community as appropriate. The patient will remain in ultimate control of the care they receive and can at any time request to be taken to the emergency department.

Province takes further measures to expand hospital capacity and health human resources

  • The Ontario government is responding to the recent rapid rise in hospitalizations with measures that will add capacity to the health care system.
  • The province is making changes to encourage alternate level of care patients in hospitals who are waiting for a long-term care home placement to accept a placement in a home that may not be their preferred choice. Ontario is waiving co-payments for these patients until they can be transferred to a home of their choice. In addition, patients who accept these placements will maintain priority status on the waitlist for their preferred home. 

Ontario Provincial Booking System for COVID-19 Vaccines Information:

  • Individuals who will be turning 60 or older (effective April 7) and wish to make an appointment — or an individual trusted to make an appointment on their behalf — can visit Ontario.ca/bookvaccine.
  • For individuals who do not have internet access, they can call the Provincial Booking Line at
    1-833-943-3900, open Monday to Sunday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • When booking an appointment, individuals will be asked for information from their green Ontario health card, birth date, postal code and email address and/or phone number. At the time of booking, eligible individuals will schedule their first and second vaccination appointments.
  • Individuals who still have a red and white health card, or who require assistance with booking, can call the Provincial Vaccine Information Line number at 1-888-999-6488.

Federal

Quick Summary of Federal Developments:

  • This week is National Immunization Awareness Week. Use #MyWhy – your reason for why it is important to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to stay up-to-date with other routine vaccinations.
  • Statement from Health Canada on AstraZeneca and Janssen COVID-19 vaccines produced at Emergent BioSolutions
    • Health Canada has verified that the 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine imported into Canada from this facility meet quality specifications. The Department reviewed test results of all vaccine lots that came into Canada, as well as the company’s quality control steps implemented throughout the manufacturing process to mitigate potential risks of contamination.
    • Janssen vaccines anticipated to come into the country next week do not come from this facility.

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