P.E.I. reports 16th COVID-related death
The P.E.I. Chief Public Well being Workplace introduced the province’s sixteenth COVID-related demise of the pandemic Monday, an individual aged 80 or older.
The CPHO defines a COVID-related demise as a demise the place the virus “is the reason for demise or is a contributing issue.”
4 individuals are within the hospital as a result of virus. One other two who had been there for different causes have additionally examined optimistic.
Outbreaks are nonetheless energetic in two long-term care services: Backyard House and South Shore Villa. Twenty-six early studying and child-care centres have instances, 19 of that are open — the remainder are working at a modified or lowered capability.
Potential exposures for Island faculties are listed on the Public Schools Branch and French-language school board web sites.
There have been 933 new instances because the province’s final COVID-19 replace. On common, there have been 314 instances per day over the past seven days.
