17 Residents Of Ontario Apartment Building Test Positive For COVID-19 Amid Outbreak

There's also preliminary confirmation that two cases are variants of concern.
17 Residents Of Ontario Apartment Building Test Positive For COVID-19 Amid Outbreak
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More than a dozen cases have now been confirmed amid a COVID-19 outbreak in an Ontario apartment building.

The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit (NBPSDH) confirmed the outbreak Monday after testing a total of 110 residents of the Skyline-Lancelot Apartments.

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Due to the small number of individuals testing positive for COVID-19 in the Health Unit’s district, this has raised concern. NBPSDH

"This is especially worrying as two of the people who tested positive had a preliminary confirmation of a COVID-19 Variant of Concern," wrote NBPSDH in the release.

As of 3:00 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 17 people had tested positive and one individual has been hospitalized.

All positive results collected from the outbreak are being sent for additional testing, which can take days to process.

Contact management and tracing are underway and all residents of the apartment have been made aware of the outbreak along with the public.

An apartment building in the Middlesex-London Health Unit suffered a similar outbreak in December.

Forty-six individuals, including three staff, tested positive at the Maple Ridge on the Parcon.

Currently, NBPSDH has 21 active cases of COVID-19.

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