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The Thanksgiving weekend brought a break in the regular COVID-19 updates from the Eastern Ontario Health Unit and the province, as neither provided any updated figures on Monday.
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Provincial figures were updated Saturday and Sunday, with 35 new cases assigned to the EOHU, and a cumulative total of 5,393. Provincial caseload data remains well off the numbers published by the EOHU, whose cumulative total was 5,533 on Friday. Some of the 35 new cases in the provincial data will include the 18 cases the EOHU added on Friday, with some of the new cases the health unit is sure to confirm in its Tuesday updates.
With the break in regular data, other COVID-19 data updated on Friday can be examined, including the ICES dashboards showing vaccination rates by postal code forward sortation area (FSA), which became a focus in EOHU messaging in recent weeks as the two largest ones in Cornwall — K6H and K6J — along with the main one in Hawkesbury, remain among the areas with the lowest rate of fully vaccinated people in Ontario.
This data was updated on Friday, leading to some changes in where our local FSAs rank provincially due to updated vaccination rates. The data in the dashboard now includes vaccines administered up to and including Oct. 3.
The K6H FSA neighbourhood, which includes most of Cornwall from Pitt Street north to Highway 401 and east to Boundary Road, is eighth in the least-vaccinated FSAs in Ontario, with a vaccination rate on Oct. 3 of 58.68 per cent. That’s up 3.82 per cent from ICES’ last update in mid-September, but also sees the K6H neighbourhood go from ninth to eighth spot in the ranking. The K6J FSA neighbourhood, which roughly includes the city west of Pitt Street, north to Highway 401 and west to Power Dam Drive, has a vaccination rate of 62.73 per cent, an increase of 3.41 per cent since the last update. K6J is 30th in the list of 543 FSAs ranked from least- to most-vaccinated.
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Other FSAs of note for the EOHU included in the ICES data are:
- K6A – Hawkesbury, vaccination rate of 65.86 per cent, up 2.92 per cent -112th;
- K6K – Cornwall north of Highway 401 and Rosedale Terrace in South Stormont, 67.46 per cent, up 3.25 per cent – 149th;
- K0B – A rural area encompassing a wide swath of Prescott-Russell, 67.79 per cent, up 2.92 per cent – 163rd;
- K0C – A rural area largely encompassing Stormont and Glengarry counties, and Dundas County to just west of Morrisburg and Winchester, 68.81 per cent – 208th;
- K4K – The area of the Village of Rockland and to the east along the Ottawa River, 72.43 per cent, up 2.71 per cent – 370th; and,
- K4R – Mostly the Village of Russell, 72.69 per cent – 387th.
The postal-code analysis provides a different view of vaccination data but does not directly correlate to other available information, especially when it comes to rural postal codes. On Oct. 2, the EOHU reported a vaccination rate of 82.4 per cent for all those eligible, above the highest-ranking FSA above.
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The least-vaccinated FSA in Ontario is N5H, the Village of Aylmer in southwestern Ontario, where only 46.81 per cent of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. That’s followed by P0P, which includes Manitoulin Island and the north shore of Lake Huron between Killarney Provincial Park and Espanola, with a rate of 51.87 per cent; then N0J, which is largely the rural areas Oxford and Elgin counties in southwestern Ontario.
The highest-vaccinated FSA in Ontario is N2L, which is most of the western part of the City of Waterloo, with a rate of 86.02 per cent; in second is N7W, a rural area just east of the City of Sarnia, at 81.88 per cent; followed by K7L, largely the downtown of Kingston bordered by Princess Street to the north and the Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway to the west, at 80.26 per cent.
Also updated on Friday was the Public Health Ontario data on COVID-19 variants, which now includes data from the period between Aug. 22 and Sept. 18. It showed 53 positive COVID-19 results that were variants, of which 52 were Delta and the remaining was the Mu variant of interest. This is a decrease of 35 cases compared to the previous four-week period.
The health unit has rescheduled its weekly briefings, they will now take place on Wednesday afternoons starting this week.
COVID-19 assessment centres:
- Cornwall – 850 McConnell Ave. – call 343-475-0160
- Akwesasne (residents of northern portion of territory only) – call 613-575-2341 ext. 3220
- Winchester – 515 Albert St. – call 613-801-2333
- Rockland – by appointment only, must complete form from website first
- Hawkesbury – 750 Laurier St. – Ages 2 and up, must book appointment online
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