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28.11.2020 / 01:37

COVID-19 outbreak at Joseph Brant Hospital spreads, 2 patients die

COVID-19 outbreak declared at Burlington’s Joseph Brant Hospital inpatient unit The outbreak, which was initially declared on Nov. 18 on 7 South 100 (7S100), has now spread to a total of four health-care workers and six patients.Two of those patients have died.The hospital says its infection prevention and control team is working closely with Halton Public Health to contact and test anyone who might have been exposed to those infected.Both inpatient units are being deep cleaned on a daily basis and are closed to visitors with very limited exceptions, and any patients who are showing COVID-19 symptoms like fever, cough and shortness of breath are being tested immediately.

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Joseph Brant eases visiting rules for caregivers and support persons

COVID-19 pandemic that has Halton Region in the red-control level of the province’s COVID-19 response framework.Effective Tuesday, Joseph Brant hospital is allowing approved support persons to visit on consecutive days as opposed to the even and odd room number stipulations previously put into effect when the pandemic hit in March.

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COVID-19 outbreak declared at Burlington’s Joseph Brant Hospital inpatient unit

COVID-19 at one of its inpatient units.The Burlington hospital says it’s working closely with Halton Public Health after three health-care workers and one patient on 7 South 100 (7S100) tested positive for the coronavirus.All patients, staff and physicians who may have been exposed are being contacted and tested, and affected health-care workers are currently self-isolating and will not return to work until they are asymptomatic.

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Outbreak tied to COVID-19 cases at SPINCO ‘unfortunate’: Hamilton’s medical officer of health

COVID-19 outbreak at a downtown gym as an “unfortunate case.”An investigation has determined that SPINCO’s Downtown Hamilton location, which has been connected to 61 coronavirus cases, was following public health guidelines, according to Dr. Elizabeth Richardson.In the city’s emergency operations centre update on Tuesday, Richardson said a review determined the outlet had been operating at 50 per cent capacity in keeping with provincial guidelines amid the pandemic which included customer screening, sanitation, and a two-metre radius around each bike.“When we talked to them about what they were doing beforehand they had removed 50 percent of the bikes so that people were further apart, they had made sure they were laundering towels.

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Pandemic response unit being built at Joseph Brant Hospital ahead of expected COVID-19 ‘surge’

Construction has begun on a temporary pandemic response unit at Burlington’s Joseph Brant Hospital.

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Coronavirus: Man in his 50s is the second COVID-19 death in Ontario

Halton Region Public Health (HRPH) says Ontario’s second death related to COVID-19 was a patient being treated for an underlying condition at a regional hospital.

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Coronavirus: Brant County’s first positive COVID-19 case travelled through Hamilton airport

Brant County Health Unit (BCHU) confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday after a woman in her 40s returned to Canada through Hamilton airport.

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Coronavirus: 5 more positive tests for COVID-19 in Hamilton

Ontario’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that Hamilton, Ont., has five new confirmed positive tests for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, in the city as of Tuesday morning.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0