Waterloo Public Health reported another COVID-19-related death on Tuesday, bringing the death toll in the area to 320, including seven victims in January.
“Today we are reporting a death in our community related to COVID-19. The individual was a female in her 50s,” said Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, a medical officer of health.
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“I wish to express my deepest condolences to the family of this individual.”
The woman was also a resident of the Golden Years nursing home in Cambridge, where two women have died during an outbreak of COVID-19 that began in late December 2021. There have been 39 cases linked to the outbreak, including 27 involving residents.
The outbreak is one of 60 in the area after two more were reported Tuesday. Of the 60, 31 are connected to long-term care or nursing homes, while 23 have been connected to congregate settings and the last six are in area hospitals.
There are now 107 patients in area hospitals suffering from COVID-19, including 14 who need intensive care. Those numbers were reported as 94 and 13 on Monday.
Waterloo Public Health has reported another 487 positive tests for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases in the area to 32,149.
This leaves the seven-day rolling average number of new daily cases at 565.4, as 487 cases were also reported last Tuesday.
Another 103 people were also cleared of the virus, bringing the total number of resolved cases to 25,167.
This leaves the area with 6,435 active cases of COVID-19, a number that stood at 3,864 a week earlier.
Waterloo Public Health reports that there have now been 1,154,116 COVID-19 vaccinations in the area, an increase of 5,804 since Monday.
The agency says 5,157 more residents have received a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the total to 209,990.
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Elsewhere, the province also reported 7,951 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, though that’s an underestimate due to recently implemented testing restrictions. There have been 896,248 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario since the pandemic began.
An additional 45,451 tests were completed. The positivity rate stands at 24.4 percent.
21 virus-related deaths were also reported on Tuesday, bringing the provincial death toll to 10,399.
A total of 747,289 COVID cases are considered resolved, which represents an increase of 9,893.
On Monday, 141,693 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Ontario.
— archived by Ryan Rocca of Global News
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