A resident at Hospice Peterborough who initially tested positive for the coronavirus is one of the errors reported by a lab in Ottawa last week.
According to Jodi Dunn, manager of hospice residence, an individual with a cancer diagnosis had tested positive for the virus while being asymptomatic in late April.
However, Dunn says Peterborough Public Health has informed them that the result was among the 22 false positives a lab in Ottawa reported late last week.
Subsequent tests of all 20 staff, including medical director Dr. John Beamish, were all negative, Hospice Peterborough stated. “While this news is reassuring, we were cautiously confident that we had followed all the infection control protocols to the best of our ability,” stated