COVID-19: Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington reports highest infection rate in Ontario
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The KFL&A region is experiencing the province's highest COVID-19 infection rate, as case counts continue to rise and experts encourage masking.
According to data tracked by the Ontario Science Table, the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) region has the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the province.
“Kingston may very well now be one of the more hazardous places in Ontario, if not Canada, right now for COVID,” says infectious disease specialist Dr. Dick Zoutman.
He says he’s not surprised by the high rates of COVID in the region, but said Kingstonians need to act.
“There’s 520 cases per million population, which is a lot. That’s really high,” Zoutman says. “There’s simple things that we can do that are simple and cheap and painless.
“For example, wearing masks. They’re easy to do, they don’t cost very much, they’re incredibly safe.”
According to Zoutman, wearing a surgical mask provides a 65-per cent reduction in risk of getting COVID. An N-95 mask provides 83 per cent reduction in COVID risk.
“Those of us who have followed this closely unfortunately realize that this is where this was going to go,” says Zoutman. “When we lifted the requirement for masking on the 21st of March, we all knew what was going to happen. It was very clear.”
And many Kingstonians agree with his sentiment.
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