{"id":19040,"date":"2022-05-15T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=19040"},"modified":"2022-06-09T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:10:11","slug":"niagara-health-reports-the-death-of-two-more-niagara-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/niagara-health-reports-the-death-of-two-more-niagara-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Health reports the death of two more Niagara residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c5 c13\"><span class=\"c2\">(May 13, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c5 c13\"><span class=\"c2\">By: Victoria Nicolaou, Niagara Falls Review<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">COVID-19 infections may be slightly down as compared to the last few weeks, but hospitalizations remain high, and Niagara\u2019s acting medical officer of health warns there continues to be \u201ca lot of risk\u201d in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cWhile we might be looking more positive, it\u2019s going to take time for the infections to come down and for this wave to come to an end,\u201d said Dr. Mustafa Hirji, in an interview Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cWe all need to make sure we stay vigilant and stay careful out there so we don\u2019t spread it to others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">As we continue through the spring months, with indoor events and spring dance recitals, Hirji highly recommends staying outdoors when possible to minimize the risk of spreading infection, and continues to stress the importance of wearing masks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">While he had hoped to see Ontario institute a province-wide mask mandate, even writing a joint letter to the province\u2019s chief doctor last week, Hirji said he was not surprised by the response from Dr. Kiernan Moore, who has chosen not to move forward with any additional mask mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cHis response I think was fairly standard response you get from a government official, fairly bland. It doesn\u2019t lay out a whole lot of reasoning for their position,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really say at any point explicitly that he doesn\u2019t support extending the mask requirement but it\u2019s basically implied.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">Hirji said there would be some benefit in Niagara if he were to institute a region-wide mask mandate, but the numbers continue to show it would have the highest impact if done province-wide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">However, the point of the letter was to build the case of support, and the hope that as more people and groups, such as the Ontario Health Coalition, voice their support, it could \u2014 even down the road in the next wave of the virus, which could be worse as vaccine immunity begins to wane \u2014 be \u201cenough to shift opinion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">And to try and ensure the province continues to actively manage the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cWe\u2019re at a stage where we don\u2019t need to do lockdowns, we\u2019re not going to be having really onerous restrictions on businesses at any point, but that the pandemic is still here,\u201d said Hirji.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cIt\u2019s still something we need to take seriously and that the province is not going to be disengaged and unfortunately just going to let a lot of people, especially more vulnerable people, perhaps suffer from illness from this virus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">After two days without any COVID-19 deaths, Niagara Health reported Friday the death of two more Niagara residents who both tested positive for the virus. Currently there are 82 people being treated in the hospital system, with 19 admitted primarily for COVID-19, and three people being treated in the ICU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">Four hospitals are declaring outbreaks in its facilities, including one new active outbreak in Niagara Falls (four in total), one in St. Catharines, two at Welland and one in Port Colborne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">Niagara Region Public Health reported 1,288 active cases of the virus and 17 active outbreaks, with nine of those in long-term care and retirement homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c8\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cWhile things are improving, they\u2019re not completely better and some people are still suffering the worst of consequences of COVID-19, which is passing away,\u201d said Hirji.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c5 c13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/news\/niagara-region\/2022\/05\/13\/niagara-health-reports-the-death-of-two-more-niagara-residents.html\"><span class=\"c2\">Link to original article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 13, 2022) By: Victoria Nicolaou, Niagara Falls Review COVID-19 infections may be slightly down as compared to the last few weeks, but hospitalizations remain high, and Niagara\u2019s acting medical officer of health warns there continues to be \u201ca lot of risk\u201d in the community. \u201cWhile we might be looking more positive, it\u2019s going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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