Grey Bruce Health Unit reports single COVID-19 case on Tuesday

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The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported a single new case of the COVID-19 virus on Tuesday.

The lone case was in Hanover, bringing the total to 625 for Grey-Bruce since the beginning of the pandemic. A total of 22 cases remain active, while 603 have been resolved.

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There is also one active probable case, which is a case that is not lab confirmed but is someone who is symptomatic and a high-risk contact of an active case.

There are a total of 76 high-risk contacts associated with active cases.

Two people are hospitalized with the virus in Grey-Bruce, including one person who is intubated.

There have been no deaths contributed to the virus in Grey-Bruce.

A total of 74 cases have been reported in health-care workers.

There are no reported active outbreaks in long-term care or retirement homes, schools or childcare centres in Grey-Bruce.

A total of 390 vaccine doses had been administered in Grey-Bruce.

The health unit received a shipment of 600 doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, to go along with 200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which were administered on Jan. 15.

A COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force has been established in Grey-Bruce to provide feedback and support in the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s COVID-19 vaccination program plan.

The task force will meet regularly to provide input on the plan, which lays out the health unit’s three-phase plan to administer vaccines to about 140,000 residents, or about 75 per cent of the population of Grey-Bruce.

The plan also includes details on the three models for getting the needles in the arms of residents, including mobile clinics, practice clinics and mass immunization hubs.

Community partner support will be required for the mass immunization clinics for tasks such as client appointment booking, registration, transportation to clinics, traffic and parking, traffic flow and other miscellaneous tasks, it said in a news release from the health unit.

Support will also be needed with equipment, supplies and technology.

The task force will include stakeholders representing agriculture, business, community health centres, congregate settings like long-term care and retirement homes, schools, emergency medical services, faith-based organizations, fire, First Nations and the Indigenous community, hospitals, municipalities, pharmacies, police, primary care and social services.