Six residents of Hillsdale Terraces Long-Term Care home in Oshawa have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to public health officials in Durham Region.
As of Saturday, there were a total of 27 residents confirmed with COVID-19 at the care home, according to Glendene Collins from the Durham Region Health Department. “Six residents have passed away; these six are included in the 27 confirmed cases,” she said in an email to Global News on Sunday.
The care home reported its first confirmed cases in four residents — two women aged 80 and 92, two men aged 68 and 71 — last month, on March 19.