Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health for KFL&A Public Health provided a COVID-19 update to the local media on Thursday, Apr.
And, while Dr.
And we continue to work very closely with people who have tested positive to trace their contacts and limit the spread in our community,” Moore said.
Moore reiterated that COVID-19 cases are currently distributed across the region, as he’d announced earlier in the week.
“You can never let your guard down against this virus, it wants to spread rapidly.
For context, KFL&A’s 27 cases per 100,000 people and less than one per cent positivity rate means the region is faring far better than places like the Peel Region, where the rate of illness is currently 363 cases per 100,000 people, with the per cent of positive tests sitting around 13 per cent.
“So at least 10 times higher risk as you leave our region, especially if you go to GTA or Ottawa.
On Thursday, Apr.
“I always worry about our healthcare workers.
“Our nurses, our RTs, our hospital workers are well trained, all of them have received their first doses if they’ve wanted it.
“So at a community level, I am not worried about the risk of treating patients in the hospital sector, in the intensive care unit, or on our COVID wards, and have great confidence in practices of our health care providers.
Although the number of vaccine does being delivered to KFL&A has decreased, this was something Dr.
“Another milestone has been reached in that 75 per cent of those over 60 in our region have received their first dose of COVID-19 immunization.