Algoma Public Health (APH) is providing the Elliot Lake community with the following update, following recent confirmed cases in the region.<\/p>\n
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To date, APH has identified\u00a07\u00a0confirmed cases associated with a specific multi-unit dwelling, 100 Warsaw Place in\u00a0Elliot Lake, ON.\u00a0Following a thorough public health investigation of this community cluster, including case and contact interviews, and an on-site environmental inspection,\u00a0we have determined that some cases are linked to known person-to-person\u00a0exposures, but not all.\u00a0\u00a0Additional\u00a0laboratory investigations are ongoing.\u00a0 Although variants of concern (VOCs) have not yet been detected in Algoma, VOCs have been detected in many Ontario regions, including in northern Ontario, and heightened\u00a0vigilance is\u00a0necessary at this time.<\/p>\n
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As a result, APH is advising the following:<\/p>\n
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Public health recommendations to residents of 100 Warsaw Place.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to the direct\u00a0notification and isolation of confirmed\u00a0cases and\u00a0close contacts,\u00a0APH is notifying and advising all residents and individuals associated with this residential\u00a0complex to seek COVID-19 testing, especially if they have symptoms or are concerned that they may have been exposed<\/strong>.\u00a0 The virus spreads from person to person, and close contact exposures happen when people spend time together while being closer than 2 metres apart.\u00a0The Elliot Lake Family Health Team will be offering a second round of on-site testing on Friday February 12 beginning at 9:30 am.<\/p>\n If you are a resident of this building and have questions, please call Algoma Public Health at 1-705-759-5404 or 1-866-892-0172 ext. 5404.<\/p>\n Public health recommendations to all community members: Public health recommendations to all community service providers:<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Algoma Public Health (APH) is providing the Elliot Lake community with the following update, following recent confirmed cases in the region. To date, APH has identified\u00a07\u00a0confirmed cases associated with a specific multi-unit dwelling, 100 Warsaw Place in\u00a0Elliot Lake, ON.\u00a0Following a thorough public health investigation of this community cluster, including case and contact interviews, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 23:53:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41904,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions\/41904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGiven the evidence of ongoing\u00a0community spread across Algoma, APH is also reminding all community members, regardless of where they live, to do the following:<\/p>\n\n
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