For Immediate Release - January 14, 2021
During weekly surveillance testing for COVID-19 at Wellington Terrace Long Term Care Home, an employee tested positive. The employee is asymptomatic and in isolation at home.
Wellington Terrace staff immediately responded to the situation with direction from Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health to limit further transmission of the virus. Families of Wellington Terrace residents have notified of the situation.
Upon receiving the positive test results, Wellington Terrace worked closely with Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health to begin contact tracing those that may have come in contact with the infected employee.
Prior to this positive test result, Wellington Terrace was placed in facility-wide outbreak status which was set to expire on January 21. The facility-wide outbreak status has now been extended until January 25.
Wellington Terrace will continue to follow extensive infection control processes that follow Ministry of Health directives and are guided by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.
Wellington Terrace employees are tested every 7 days as per Ministry of Health directives. Any resident or employee that shows even the slightest evidence of a health change is immediately tested for COVID-19.
In collaboration with Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, Wellington Terrace is in the process of organizing resident and staff COVID-19 vaccinations.
A facility-wide outbreak prohibits any new resident admissions to Wellington Terrace. To date, there has not been any COVID-19 positive cases in the resident population. We wish the COVID-19 positive employee an expedient recovery.
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