Over 50 ed assistants cut for First Nations students
Second COVID outbreak at Bluewater Health
January 14, 2022
Bluewater Health is reporting a second outbreak at the Sarnia hospital.
Officials report today the Surgical B Unit in in outbreak with six patients and four staff testing positive for COVID-19.
That’s in addition to the outbreak in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit which was declared Jan. 7. There are now six patients and six staff who have tested COVID-19 positive from that outbreak.
In all, there are 41 patients who have tested positive for the virus.
Meantime, Lambton Public Health is reporting another death today. Ninety-two people have now died in Lambton of the virus since the pandemic started.
Officials also say there are about 800 people ill with the virus in Lambton right now. That’s only the people public health knows about. The province changed testing requirements, so now, most people who fall ill never have a PCR test to confirm they have the virus.
Public health did report 141 new cases today – a combination of results which have been backlogged and those still eligible for testing such as health care workers, residents and staff at long term care and the medically vulnerable.
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Blake Ellis/The Independent Lambton-Kent District School Board passed a $383 million balanced budget for the 2025-26 school year but local Indigenous leaders are concerned. While Trustee Roberta Northmore called it a wonderful budget during the June 24 meeting, she did not support it saying there was no consultation with the four First Nations within the Lambton-Kent boundaries. Northmore called the
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Petrolia splash pad almost ready
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Two drowned in the waters off Ipperwash on the Canada Day weekend
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The Independent It was a deadly long weekend on Lake Huron in Lambton Shores. Monday, an 18 year-old London resident died and a 12 year-old had to be rescued from the waters at Ipperwash Beach. Today, Lambton OPP report another person – a 44 year-old from Lambton Shores – has also died while swimming. Police, paramedics and Lambton Shores firefighters
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