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COVID-19 Health Care Provider Briefing

Middlesex and London Region May 15, 2020

Welcome

Presenter:

• Dr. Alex Summers

Associate Medical Officer of Health Middlesex-London Health Unit

Surveillance Report

As of May 14th, 2020:

• Over 4.3 million COVID-19 cases and over

297,000 deaths have been reported worldwide.

• 22,516 cases of this illness confirmed in

Ontario, including 1,883 deaths

• Local:

Number of Cases by Municipality

Data source: MLHU COVID-19 Case and Contact Management System, extracted 2020-05-14 at 08:30 EDT. Data current as

• f the end of day 2020-05-13

Municipality

Number of cases Percent of cases (%)

London 427 92.2 Strathroy-Caradoc 19 4.1 Middlesex Centre 7 1.5 Thames Centre 4 0.9 North Middlesex 4 0.9 Southwest Middlesex 1 0.2 Lucan-Biddulph 1 0.2 Adelaide Metcalfe — Newbury —

Total

463 —

Cases by Reported Date

Data source: MLHU COVID-19 Case and Contact Management System, extracted 2020-05-14 at 08:30 EDT. Data current as of the end of day 2020-05-13

Cases by Reported Date

Data source: MLHU COVID-19 Case and Contact Management System, extracted 2020-05-14 at 08:30 EDT. Data current as of the end of day 2020-05-13

Cases by Onset Date

Data source: MLHU COVID-19 Case and Contact Management System, extracted 2020-05-14 at 08:30 EDT. Data current as of the end of day 2020-05-13. Note: Illness that began in the period denoted by the grey bars may not yet be reported.

Cases by Onset Date

Data source: MLHU COVID-19 Case and Contact Management System, extracted 2020-05-14 at 08:30 EDT. Data current as of the end of day 2020-05-13 Note: Illness that began in the period denoted by the grey bars may not yet be reported.

Provincial Updates

• COVID-19 Case Definition and Reference

Documents for Symptoms updated:

– The case definition now includes:

• consideration for travel within Canada (as well as international travel)
• updates to the ‘probable’ case definition to include people who were

living/working in a facility known to be experiencing an outbreak.

– Addition to the list of symptoms:

• multisystem inflammatory vasculitis as an atypical symptom that should be

considered in children

• The Ministry of Health has also issued a statement about multisystem

inflammatory vasculitis, indicating they have taken immediate action by updating the case definition to include multisystem inflammatory vasculitis in

• rder to better monitor this emerging issue, so they can effectively respond to

the illness.

Provincial Updates

Provincial Updates

Additional workplaces allowed to reopen

• permitted to open or expand their services on Tuesday, May 19, 2020

as long as the general trend on health indicators continues to improve

• retailers,
• seasonal businesses, and
• health and community service providers
• Detailed List of Stage 1 Openings - https://files.ontario.ca/mof-

detailed-list-stage-1-openings-en-2020-05-14.pdf

• A Framework for Reopening our Province Stage 1-

https://files.ontario.ca/mof-framework-reopening-province-stage-1-en-2020- 05-14.pdf

Provincial Updates

The province extended the Declaration of Emergency until June 2

• allows Ontario government to continue to enforce current

emergency orders,

• restricting retirement and long-term care home employees from

working in more than one facility

• prohibiting events and gatherings of more than five people
• It is important to remember with the reopening of the

province it is important to mindful and continue to practice public health social measures

COVID-19 Briefing Webinars

• The MLHU is hosting twice weekly briefing

webinars for healthcare providers.

• Held on Tuesdays and Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to

12:30 p.m.

• Please send your questions to

healthcareproviders@mlhu.on.ca

Questions?

Ask using chat function now, or after the webinar at: healthcareproviders@mlhu.on.ca