November COVID-19 Cases in Waterloo Region Exceed 1400
More than 1,400 new COVID-19 cases have been registered this month in the region of Waterloo.
The Waterloo Public Health Area announced 73 new cases on Monday November 3oth, taking the total for the month to 1,432. There have been 3,586 cases since March, which means that 37 percent of all cases reported were reported this month.
There are 554 active cases in the area with 27 patients in the hospital and eight of those in the intensive care unit.
The Details We Know:
There are 22 active outbreaks in Waterloo region. Two are at long-term care homes where one outbreak involves two staff members who have tested positive. The other outbreak is one staff member at another home. No one living at either home has tested positive for the virus.
The outbreak at Village Manor in St. Jacobs continues, with a total of 30 cases: 10 in staff members and 20 in residents of the assisted living facility. One person’s death has been linked to that outbreak.
There is also an outbreak in the 5S medicine unit at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener and on the wing B level 4 medicine unit of Cambridge Memorial Hospital.
Other outbreaks are:
- One at a congregate setting with one case.
- One at a racquet sports-related facility with 24 cases. The region has not named this location.
- One that is hockey related with nine cases.
- One that is dance-class related with two cases.
- One at a food and beverage service workplace with two cases.
- Two outbreaks are at manufacturing workplaces: one with two cases and one with three cases.
- One outbreak at a construction workplace with two cases.
- One outbreak is at a food processing workplace with 10 cases.
- One outbreak at a automobile sales and service workplace with three cases.
- One outbreak at an industrial equipment sales workplace with nine cases.
- One at a trades workplace with three cases.
- One outbreak at a child care centre with two cases.
