STEPHEN RICCIO
Feb. 15, 2021
The CISSSO announced the first step in rolling out mass public vaccination on Feb. 11, revealing that the Campbell’s Bay RA Centre will serve as the site within the Pontiac service area (RLS) where vaccinating will take place.
The dates of mass vaccinating . . .
have yet to be revealed, as CISSSO media relations officer Marie-Pier Després said in a press release that it will be dependent on the province’s receiving of doses in the coming weeks.
While residents in private seniors’ homes continue to be vaccinated throughout the region, the next priority will be people in isolated and remote communities. The first group of the general public that will be able to receive vaccines are those aged 80 and older.
Després said that once the Campbell’s Bay site is set up, it will be open five days a week, seven hours a day, with seven people being vaccinated per hour per vaccinator. Once the six sites across the Outaouais are set up, the CISSSO expects to be able to vaccinate 3,000 to 6,000 people per day across the region.
Campbell’s Bay Mayor Maurice Beauregard told THE EQUITY that the RA Centre is already being worked on by the health authority to prepare it for vaccinations. He added that its new function as the Pontiac vaccination site will mean it will have no other uses for at least the next six months.
To date, the CISSSO has administered 9,798 first doses to citizens.
The Pontiac service area (RLS) continues to have five or less active cases (minimum one) while the total case count has gone up by one since Feb. 8,
standing at 66 as of Feb. 15.
The municipalities of Campbell’s Bay, Fort Coulonge, L’Île du Grand Calumet, L’Isle aux Allumettes, Otter Lake, Shawville and Waltham continue to stand at five or less.
The Municipality of Mansfield et Pontefract had seven total cases, which is an increase of one from last week. The Municipality of Pontiac total stood at 42, also up one from last week.
The Outauoais had 123 active cases (6,056 total, 5,776 recovered) as of Feb. 8, which is up 10 from last week. There continue to be four hospitalizations at the designated COVID-19 center.
The cumulative death toll stood at 157, with one Wbeing recorded in the past week.
The region is dealing with active outbreaks at four health care facilities: Manoir Gatineau, Résidence Shayla, RPA Chartwell Domaine Notre-Dame and RPA Chartwell Monastère d’Aylmer.
