Peterborough Public Health has declared that the outbreak of COVID-19 on an inpatient unit of Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is over.
The outbreak involved three staff members on the inpatient unit who tested positive for COVID-19 and who self-isolated with mild symptoms at home.
These staff members will return to work once they have no symptoms and have tested negative for COVID-19 twice.
There have been no additional positive cases of COVID-19 since the initial three staff cases, and all others on the affected unit have tested negative.
All enhanced pandemic measures continue to be in place at PRHC, with all healthcare workers continuing to use appropriate infection prevention and control measures to prevent the spread of illness in the hospital environment, including frequent hand-cleaning, wearing surgical masks in all public and patient-facing areas, and additional personal protective equipment as required to perform their work.
In other news, PRHC reported on Wednesday (April 22) that one of the two inpatients with COVID-19 in the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) has now been transferred out of the ICU to a bed on an inpatient unit.
PRHC has now tested more than 2,000 people for COVID-19 at its assessment centre, and is asking people with new or worsening symptoms of respiratory illness to contact the COVID-19 Assessment Centre directly at 705-876-5086 to determine whether an assessment is necessary.
