Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Brant County Health Unit (BCHU) continues to actively monitor the situation in collaboration with provincial and national health agencies and stakeholders, including the local hospital and community agencies.
BCHU is working with our partners in the health care system to monitor, detect, and if needed, isolate any possible COVID-19 case.
If you need to speak with someone, please call 519-753-4937 and press '1'. Our phone lines are staffed 8:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on weekends. You can also email your questions to
covid19@bchu.org.
BCHU does not do in-person assessment or testing but refers to the
Assessment Centre at the Brant Community Healthcare System when those meeting the case definition are identified through our contact centre.
If you think you have COVID-19 symptoms or have been in close contact with someone who has it, use thisself-assessment tool, developed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to help determine if you need to seek further care.
Brant COVID-19 Summary
BCHU will no longer issue media releases to announce each new case. The number of lab confirmed, positive cases will be updated daily at 11 a.m.
Last updated: April 27, 2020
Demographics of confirmed cases
| <20 | 5
| 5.6% |
| 20-39 | 29
| 32.2%
|
| 40-59 | 34
| 37.7%
|
| 60-79 | 17
| 18.9% |
| 80+ | 5
| 5.6%
|
| Close contact of confirmed case | 48
| 53.3%
|
| Travel | 11 | 12.2% |
| Community (Other) | 29
| 32.3%
|
| Pending | 2
| 2.2%
|
COVID-19 Outbreaks at long-term care facilities and retirement homes
Telfer Place Long-Term Care
| April 25, 2020
| 1 | 0 | 0 | |
St. Joseph's Lifecare Centre (Second outbreak)
| April 23, 2020
| 0
| 1 | 0 |
|
St. Joseph's Lifecare Centre (First outbreak)
| April 2, 2020
| 0 | 1 | 0
| April 12, 2020
|
| Telfer Place Retirement Residence | March 3, 2020
| 0 | 1 | 0 | April 6, 2020 |
On March 30, the Ministry of Health announced changes for what would constitute a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care home. By the new definition, long-term care homes must consider a single, laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19 in a resident or staff member as a confirmed respiratory outbreak in the facility. Please note that these above totals are reflected in the overall case count.
COVID-19 Testing in Brant
