Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared a COVID-19 Outbreak at La Verendrye General Hospital Inpatient Unit – First Floor. To further enhance our team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, additional precautions are being taken including, but not limited to: The […]
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Upon closure of two Fort Frances elementary schools this week due to COVID-19, Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) recommends the immediate suspension of all indoor extra-curricular activities for those aged 4-11 in the Fort Frances, Emo, and Rainy River areas. “Indoor extracurricular activities should not take place currently in these communities. […]
Currently, there are 61 active cases of COVID-19 in the Northwestern Health Unit region. Today we received reports of five new positive COVID-19 test results in the Emo Health Hub region, four new positive COVID-19 test results in the Sioux Lookout Health Hub region, two new positive COVID-19 test results […]
Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program (SCAP) in Emo. By provincial definition, an outbreak is declared when there are 2 or more COVID-19 cases in a school and the case and contact follow-up does not show probable links outside of the school […]
To combat growing concerns about the possibility of leftover vaccinations going to waste, the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) has launched a formal new process to ensure every vaccine is used up. Linked off of the NWHU’s booking webpage, they now have a standby survey and webpage to explain who is […]
The Government of Ontario announced that the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) area will be moving to the Red–Control level of the COVID-19 Response Framework as of March 15, 2021 at 12:01 a.m. There has been an increase in cases across the region and the health unit urges residents to take […]
All COVID-19 tests that come back positive are screened for variants of concern. This morning, Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) was informed that two COVID-19 cases in our region have come back positive for the UK variant. The two cases are unrelated to one another. One case is in the Fort […]