Throughout the jurisdiction of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit on Tuesday June 16, there were 27 active cases of COVID-19 and 131 resolved cases. Among the population of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, there were 19 active cases and 92 resolved cases. There were three active cases and 24 resolved cases among residents of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry as of June 16. Among residents of the City of Cornwall as of June 16, there were six active cases of COVID-19 and 15 resolved cases.
There were two COVID-19 patients from the territory of the EOHU in hospital on Tuesday, and one of those patients was in intensive care.
There had been no COVID-19 deaths within the jurisdiction for more than a week as of June 16. The number remained at 11, and all had been due to a previous outbreak at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Plantagenet. .
Institutional outbreak
A new COVID-19 outbreak at the Pinecrest facility was reported on June 11. The outbreak at the St-Viateur Nursing Home in Limoges was declared over on June 13. There were no other institutional COVID-19 outbreaks within the EOHU`s territory as of June 16.
Testing
There are five testing and assessment centres throughout the EOHU`s jurisdiction. As of June 16, 12,013 people had been tested for COVID-19 at the five centres, and by paramedics in Prescott and Russell, SD & G-Cornwall making home visits.
Across Ontario
There had been 32,554 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the province of Ontario as of Tuesday, June 16. On June 16, 84.3 per cent of the 32,554 cases were listed by the Ministry of Health as resolved.
There were 413 COVID-19 patients in hospital across Ontario on June 16, 98 patients were in intensive care, and 70 patients were on ventilators.
As of Tuesday, there had been 2,538 deaths due to COVID-19 across Ontario.
Confirmed and resolved COVID-19 cases throughout EOHU territory as of Tuesday, June 16, 2020.
Map: Eastern Ontario Health Unit.
