ICYMI: Record-breaking crowd at Alvinston Rodeo
Outbreak at Meadowview over – more COVID-19 cases and another death at Vision
June 3, 2020
Lambton Meadowview Villa is again COVID-19 free but another outbreak in Sarnia continues to claim lives.
Lambton Public Health declared an outbreak at the Petrolia home after a staff member was sent home May 19with a headache and later tested positive for COVID-19.
No one else in the home has had symptoms of the virus since then.
But at Vision Nursing Home in Sarnia, another resident and another staff member have now tested positive for COVID-19. And there has been another resident die. Nine of the Vision residents who were COVID-19 positive were moved to the hospital last week. Two have since passed away.
In all, Lambton Public Health statistics show 266 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus – 210 have recovered. Twenty-four people have died.
In all as of June 1, 7,091 tests have been done in Lambton.
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