{"id":264296,"date":"2026-02-02T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264296\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:24:07","slug":"local-hospital-now-has-covid-19-outbreak-in-two-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264296\/","title":{"rendered":"Local hospital now has COVID-19 outbreak in two units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Sault Area Hospital declared another COVID-19 outbreak, this time in unit 1B.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second COVID-19 outbreak at the hospital since Saturday when the hospital declared an outbreak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/sault-area-hospital-declares-covid-19-outbreak-in-2c-unit-11818947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unit 2C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unit 1B\u00a0is designated as a Transition Care Unit to support patients who often require an alternative level of care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a hospital setting an outbreak is declared based on the criteria outlined by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control,\u201d Felicia Clement, the hospital\u2019s communications and digital services coordinator, told SooToday in October when there was a previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/covid-19-outbreak-declared-at-sault-hospital-11352601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">COVID-19\u00a0outbreak in 1B.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PIDAC defines an outbreak as two or more patients testing positive for the same respiratory virus within a defined area, \u201cwith symptom onset occurring within a 48-hour period, and where at least two cases could reasonably have been acquired within the health-care setting,\u201d Clement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning Sault Area Hospital declared another COVID-19 outbreak, this time in unit 1B. It\u2019s the second COVID-19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-264296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}