COVID-19: 1 new hospitalization at KFL & A, 60 new ‘high risk’ cases – Kingston | The Canadian News

Kingston Frontenac and Lennox and Addington reported 60 new high-risk cases of COVID-19 on Monday. Active high-risk cases are at 745.

670 tests were administered.

There is a new hospitalization, bringing the total to 22 hospitalized patients.

Eleven patients are in the ICU and seven are on ventilators.

The numbers reported on Monday look very different than in the past. The health unit, along with its neighbors at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health, has changed the way it reports positive cases, as well as the amount of information that is provided.

In addition to reporting only “high risk” cases, the health unit has stopped reporting worrisome variants as Omicron has become the dominant strain.

Age, source of acquisition, geography, and vaccine status will no longer be reported.

The health unit also says that the rates per 100,000 cases no longer reflect the rate for the entire population.

Reporting of new outbreaks will be limited to high-risk settings, such as long-term care homes, nursing homes, hospitals, and group living settings.

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