Public Service Announcements

Kingston, ON – Today, Dr. Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health at KFL&A Public Health issued an Order requiring all individuals to wear a face covering (e.g., homemade or purchased mask, scarf or bandana) when entering and accessing services at any commercial establishments in the KFL&A area. This Order is effective on Saturday, June 27 at 12:01 a.m.
“We have seen more people wearing face coverings voluntarily and making them mandatory reinforces best...
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KFL&A Public Health is recognizing area long-term care homes and health care workers for their collaboration in making the COVID-19 long-term care home surveillance testing such a success. On April 29, 2020, KFL&A Public Health announced COVID-19 targeted surveillance testing for all residents and staff in the 12 long-term care homes in its jurisdiction. The testing is part of the provincial surveillance initiative to get a point-in-time picture of COVID-19 in...
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Kingston — KFL&A Public Health is collaborating with Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes in the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington area to assist with the implementation of the recently released Ontario Ministry of Health’s (MOH) enhanced testing guidelines to protect this vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The MOH announcement included immediate proactive surveillance testing of all residents and staff in LTC Homes, regardless of symptoms....
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Kingston —The Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Board of Health’s April meeting will be hosted by teleconference.   Date :                              Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Time :                            ......
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Kingston, ON – KFL&A Public Health launches new Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) Pandemic Tracker to monitor daily admissions to hospitals in Ontario for key syndromes related to COVID-19.
ACES is a real-time syndromic surveillance system that uses natural language processing to group free text reasons for admission into different syndromes.  These syndromes are not clinical diagnoses.  The ACES Pandemic Tracker looks at admissions to hospitals...
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