The health unit for the City of Kawartha Lakes says three residents of a long-term care home have been tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Late Friday afternoon, Dr. Lynn Noseworthy, medical officer of health for the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit, said the residents live at Pinecrest Nursing Home on County Road 36 in the village of Bobcaygeon, 33 kilometres north east of Lindsay.
The cases are two men, ages 89 and 61 and a 94-year-old woman. All three are in isolation at the 65-bed facility, Noseworthy said.
That brings the total to 9 confirmed cases for the health unit’s jurisdiction: 6 in the City of Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland County. “We know our older residents