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  • Health Unit to Change Case COVID-19 Management and Testing Processes

      In response to the rapidly spreading and highly transmissible Omicron variant, the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit is following provincial direction and is updating its COVID-19 testing, isolation, and case and contact management guidelines. Key changes include the following: PCR testing is no longer available for everyone. PCR testing will be available for high-risk individuals, and […]

  • Community Vaccine Update: January 3, 2022

    Statistics for residents 5 and older Vaccine doses administered so far: 173,130 doses Number of people completely vaccinated: 65,379 Proportion of local population 5+ population with at least 1 dose: 80.3% Proportion of local population 5+ population fully vaccinated: 76.0% ​The HNHU and its partners have administered over 173,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to date. The population over the age […]

  • New Clinics in January offering Moderna for adults over 30

     The HNHU, along with the province of Ontario, is experiencing a shortage of adult (ages 12+) Pfizer vaccines at this time. This shortage is expected to last until mid or late January. Until this shortage is remediated at the provincial level, all available Pfizer will be reserved for those ages 12-29, where Pfizer is the […]