{"id":4137,"date":"2023-12-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2023-12-29T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T00:22:51","slug":"covid-19-outbreaks-on-the-rise-in-waterloo-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-outbreaks-on-the-rise-in-waterloo-region\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 outbreaks on the rise in Waterloo Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of active COVID-19 outbreaks in high-risk settings increased by more than 50 per cent this past week, according to the Waterloo Region public health unit\u2019s weekly dashboard update.<\/p>\n<p>There are 15&nbsp;outbreaks in high-risk settings \u2014 up from seven last week \u2014 including two in congregate settings, such as group homes or shelters, one in hospital and 12 in long-term care\/retirement homes.<\/p>\n<p>One new death was reported. So far this year, COVID-19 has been a direct or contributing cause in 41&nbsp;deaths reported by public health in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of active COVID-19 outbreaks in high-risk settings increased by more than 50 per cent this past week, according to the Waterloo Region public health unit\u2019s weekly dashboard update.<\/p>\n<p>There are 15&nbsp;outbreaks in high-risk settings \u2014 up from seven last week \u2014 including two in congregate settings, such as group homes or shelters, one in hospital and 12 in long-term care\/retirement homes.<\/p>\n<p>One new death was reported. So far this year, COVID-19 has been a direct or contributing cause in 41&nbsp;deaths reported by public health in the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-outbreaks-on-the-rise-in-waterloo-region\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 outbreaks on the rise in Waterloo Region<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[296,96,18,150,78,651,352,119,304,14,230,47,354,353,351],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cambridge","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-hospitalizations","tag-jn-1","tag-kitchener","tag-ontario","tag-outbreaks","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-variants","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-waterloo","tag-waterloo-region","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}