The Timiskaming Health Unit has revised its COVID-19 total case count downwards.
It has now officially decreased from 19 to 16.
"A decrease is not an unusual occurrence for health units but it becomes notable for those units with smaller numbers, hence we are highlighting this change via a press release," says Ryan Peters, Communications Manager.
Positive cases are attributed to a health unit by the patient’s address.
"At the time of diagnosis in August, Case #19 did not have a known fixed address. We recently were advised that Case #19 has now been determined to have a home address in another Ontario Health Unit jurisdiction so this case has been removed from our count. This notification also led to a review of our district’s first two cases with the Ministry of Health. These two patients have now been recorded as cases in another province so they too are off our statistics, bringing the total COVID-19 case count for Timiskaming Health Unit district down to 16."
