STEPHEN RICCIO
Pontiac May 3, 2021
As case numbers continue to go down across the Outaouais, the Pontiac service area (RLS) saw its active case count drop from 61 on April 26 to 52 as of May 3.
The cumulative total rose, although . . .
less than it did last week, to 304 from 270.
The concentration of COVID cases in the Pontiac’s most populated area – the Fort Coulonge and Mansfield et Pontefract area – continued, as the former had 35 cumulative cases while the latter had 74 as of the CISSSO’s most recent update.
Elsewhere in the RLS, the Municipality of Pontiac total rose from 111 to 116, Campbell’s Bay’s total rose from 11 to 13, Otter Lake’s total remained at six, Shawville’s total rose from 24 to 28 and Waltham’s total remained at seven.
Portage du Fort became the 13th municipality within the MRC Pontiac to register a COVID-19 case, and it joined Bristol, Bryson, L’Isle aux Allumettes, L’Île du Grand Calumet, Sheenboro and Thorne in the five or less case designation.
Warden Jane Toller had previously requested that the CISSSO update it’s cumulative data by municipality more frequently, and the health authority responded by updating the information at least three times since last week, with the most recent update coming on May 3.
The Outaouais had 466 active cases (11,397 total, 10,734 recovered) as of May 3, which is a decrease of 251 from April 26. The daily regional average of new cases is currently 53, down from 90 last week.
There were 50 hospitalizations at the designated COVID-19 centre in Hull, down three from last week, and eight of those people are in intensive care. The regional death toll rose by five in the past week, and it is now 197.
On April 27, Premier François Legault announced that the emergency measures for the Outaouais have been extended an additional week and will remain in-effect until May 9.
