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<\/p>\n(March 30, 2021)<\/p>\n
By: Wayne Lowrie, Brockville Recorder<\/p>\n
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This handout file illustration image obtained Feb. 27, 2020 courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows the coronavirus, COVID-19.<\/span>\u00a0PHOTO BY HANDOUT<\/span>\u00a0\/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n While the third wave was pushing Ontario\u2019s COVID-19 numbers upward, the local health unit on Tuesday continued a six-day trend of declining totals.<\/p>\n At 89 active cases, Tuesday\u2019s virus numbers were still high, but showed a drop of 15 cases from the previous day as people in Lanark County recovered from outbreaks three and four weeks earlier.<\/p>\n There were seven new COVID cases reported on Tuesday but 22 people recovered from the virus that had been centred in Lanark.<\/p>\n It marks the sixth straight day of declining numbers in the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit that reached its record height last Thursday at 140 active cases.<\/p>\n Western Lanark, where an outbreak at the Perth Curling Club three weeks ago quickly spread throughout the surrounding community, had 33 active cases on Tuesday, down eight from the previous day.<\/p>\n Eastern Lanark, centre of an earlier outbreak, had eight active cases on Tuesday.<\/p>\n As the Lanark cases subsided, the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville replaced it as the region with the most COVID.<\/p>\n Grenville had 30 of the United Counties\u2019 active cases while Western Leeds reported 10.<\/p>\n Sandwiched in between, the Brockville district recorded six cases, the same as the day before.<\/p>\n One of the active cases lacked precise address information, while another was not considered a community-based case and thus was not captured in the health unit\u2019s geographic data.<\/p>\n One COVID patient was in hospital on a ventilator. Two seniors\u2019 homes \u2013 Rideau Ferry Country Home and Perth Community Care \u2013 were in outbreak mode after a single virus case at each.<\/p>\n The Upper Canada District School Board reported that none of its schools were in outbreak mode. The outbreaks in its four Lanark County schools last week have been declared over.<\/p>\n The Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario had two schools in outbreak. St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Smiths Falls has been closed because of an outbreak. St. John Catholic Elementary in Perth is in outbreak but remains open.<\/p>\n Academie catholique Notre-Dame in Kemptville, a school in the French Catholic board, remains in outbreak.<\/p>\n In contrast to the local numbers, COVID-19 in Ontario continued to rise. The province reported 2,336 new cases on Tuesday and 14 more deaths.<\/p>\nDISTROSCALE<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n