Regional COVID-19 testing jumps five-fold in one day under new rules
CORNWALL – With relaxed criteria on novel coronavirus testing, the number of residents showing up for a swab at Eastern Ontario Health Unit assessment centers […]
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Maxville Manor retesting underway; COVID-19 positive patient ‘got better’
MAXVILLE – Eastern Ontario Health Unit officials are at a Maxville long term care home today (Friday) as part of a two day exercise to […]
Newswatch COVID-19 Digest: Monday May 4, 2020
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Monday, May 4, 2020: There have been 17,553 confirmed cases […]
Swab supply, logistics delayed widespread long term care home testing, doctor says
CORNWALL – Testing swab supply and logistics led to the almost two week delay for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit to do widespread coronavirus testing […]
Grocery worker not aware they were tested for COVID-19
Update 6:50 p.m. Sunday: Food Basics worker was not told to isolate after test at Cornwall Community Hospital. Click here for the story. CORNWALL – […]
Nearly 100 more COVID-19 tests done in one day at EOHU assessment centers
CORNWALL – Health professionals performed another 89 tests at assessment centers across the region between Tuesday and Wednesday as the area gets ready to ramp […]
Newswatch COVID-19 Digest: Saturday April 11, 2020
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Saturday, April 11, 2020: There have been 6,237 confirmed cases […]
‘I’ve said it time and time again, we’ve got cases in Cornwall’
CORNWALL – For every person from the City of Cornwall and elsewhere in the region who gets a COVID-19 test, there are roughly two presumptive […]
Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge viral tests come back empty; negative for COVID-19
CORNWALL – A mysterious illness, characterized as an “outbreak” by the region’s medical officer of health, has come back negative for COVID-19. In fact, it’s […]
Why is it so long to get COVID-19 lab results locally?
CORNWALL – The region’s medical officer of health expects the turnaround time for novel coronavirus nasal swab tests locally will get better next week as […]