COVID-19 outbreak has been declared on the Quinte 5 inpatient unit at Belleville General Hospital, after three staff members tested positive.
Contract tracing is underway and all patients and staff will be tested.Meanwhile, all visits to the unit will be paused for at least two weeks, except for end-of-life situations.This latest outbreak comes as Quinte hospitals face a rising number of pandemic patients.
Officials with Quinte Health Care say their four hospitals are ready for the third wave of COVID-19, saying that while the peak of the crisis hasn’t hit yet, the numbers are going up.“Seventy-one patients have been admitted to Quinte since April 1 with COVID.