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The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported five new COVID-19 cases Friday.
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The newest cases were found in South Bruce (3), Hanover and Kincardine.
There are now 24 confirmed active cases in Grey-Bruce and 42 high-risk contacts being followed by the health unit.
As of just before midnight Thursday, there were three local COVID-19 patients being treated at a hospital in the region with one patient transferred outside of Grey-Bruce.
The Grey Bruce Health Unit’s situation report confirms 22 Grey-Bruce residents have died with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Local data only includes deaths confirmed to be related to the virus.
One active COVID-19 outbreak is ongoing in Grey-Bruce. An outbreak at the Kelso Villa Retirement Home in Owen Sound was declared on Aug. 6.
As of Wednesday, 20 people at Kelso Villa have been infected — five staff and 15 residents. The vast majority of people who work and live at the home are vaccinated, according to the health unit. One resident has died.
The last reported positive case at Kelso Villa was recorded on Aug. 19. The outbreak will be declared over after 14 days without a new case, the incubation period of the virus.
To date, there have been 2,240 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Grey-Bruce including 118 in healthcare workers. Of those, 2,190 are considered resolved.
Meanwhile, the Grey Bruce Health Unit has administered 224,339 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine including 1,994 in the past week.
A “GO-VAXX” bus will be at the Teeswater fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday.
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The mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic is the result of a partnership between the provincial government and Metrolinx and features Go Transit buses converted into fully accessible mobile vaccination clinics. The buses have been touring around Ontario offering vaccines to those eligible.
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Cases continue to rise in the province, as the largest daily case count since early June was recorded Friday.
Public health units throughout Ontario reported a combined 781 new infections.
Twenty-two of those newly reported cases are said to be from a data clean-up effort and were actually first reported earlier during the pandemic.
Of the new cases, 485 people were unvaccinated and 83 were partially vaccinated.
The test-positivity rate resulting from just over 30,000 tests Thursday was three per cent.
Seventeen new virus-related deaths were reported Friday, although 14 of those happened earlier in the pandemic and were recently added to the data according to provincial officials.
As of Friday’s report, there were 158 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. Of those, 90 were unvaccinated, six were partially vaccinated and nine were fully vaccinated.
More than 82 per cent of Ontarians eligible to receive a vaccine have now had at least one shot.
COVID: five new COVID-19 cases reported Friday - Owen Sound Sun Times
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