THUNDER BAY — A COVID-19 outbreak that was declared earlier this month in one section of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is now over.
The outbreak was declared on March 12 in the 1A Medicine unit.
The hospital said Tuesday that over the past two weeks, no patients acquired COVID-19 as a result of their stay on that unit.
In a statement, it credited the effectiveness and rapid implementation of outbreak management protocols, as well as contact case management.
Under provincial guidelines, an outbreak is declared when two or more cases are found in patients and/or staff in a two-week period, and it's likely the virus was acquired within the hospital setting.
TBRHSC also reported another decline in the number of patients it is treating for COVID-19.
It's fallen to 25, four fewer than what the hospital reported on Monday.
Seven of these patients remain in the Intensive Care Unit, the same as on Monday.
TBRHSC's current overall occupancy is 82 per cent.
