The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre has officially declared its outbreak of COVID-19 over as of Oct. 14.
The SLMHC identified two in-patients who tested positive cases of COVID-19 on Sept. 23.
The outbreak was declared over after 10 days of no new positive cases directly related to the outbreak.
“By expanding infection control measures within the hospital, our outbreak management team acted quickly to contain this outbreak in a short period of time,” says Douglas Semple, President and CEO of SLMHC. “We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to all our staff for their hard work and dedication to infection prevention and control and keeping our patients, visitors and staff safe during this time.”
For more information on visitor restrictions and how services are impacted at the hospital, please visit slmhc.on.ca/covid19.
