There are five new cases of COVID-19 in Huron Perth. According to HPPH data, all of the new cases are in Stratford.
There are 21 active cases in the region, that’s 4 more than Wednesday, and 1,300 people have recovered.
As we observe the National Day of Remembrance on Thursday, March 11th the death toll in Huron Perth remains at 50.
Since the pandemic was declared one year ago there have been 1,371 total cases of COVID-19 in Huron Perth.
HPPH reports a second positive case of COVID-19 has a presumptive positive screen for a variant of concern, meaning the person probably has contracted a variant form of the virus. The health unit says genomic sequencing will be done to determine if the person does have a variant of concern and which one it is. That test will take at least two weeks to do.
HPPH has also declared the outbreak at the Stratford Jail over, while one workplace outbreak continues. HPPH did not provide details of where the workplace outbreak is.
