Five Nunavut elders test positive for COVID-19 at Ottawa retirement home

Author of the article: Matthew Lapierre Embassy West Senior Living in Ottawa. Photo by Google Maps /Google Maps Five Nunavut elders have tested positive for COVID-19 at an Ottawa retirement home. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “I am very concerned with the news that five Nunavut Elders have tested positive for COVID-19 at Embassy West Senior Living in Ottawa,” Nunavut’s health minister, John Main, said in a statement on Wednesday. “This is the first outbreak the facility has had in its resident population since the pandemic began, and we are monitoring and supporting our elders.” The Nunavut Department of Health has dispatched a bilingual staff member to the facility to “help with communications and response efforts,” Main added. “There have also been added provisions to allow family members to assist with caregiving, under strict COVID-19 safety protocols.” COVID-19 case numbers are rising in Nunavut. The territory counted 231 active cases of COVID-19, mostly in Iqaluit, Arviat and Rankin Inlet, as of Wednesday. The cases in Ottawa are not included in Nunavut’s official case count, but, despite that, Main said the department would “continue to closely monitor and report on our elders receiving care…
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