Safe isolation sites
Hastings County is applying for federal funding for COVID-19 “Safe Isolation Sites.”
The County is working with HPE Public Health to identify individuals who have been deemed “high risk” contact and require isolation.
They would be offered a chance to take voluntary transfer to the isolation site.
The Community and Human Services Committee learned Wednesday the plan is to have two isolation site options.
Asymptomatic individuals would use the local hotel system.
For symptomatic individuals or those unable to self-support, the isolation centre would be at the former Quinte Secondary School.
Bancroft to get a Warming Centre
The town of Bancroft may soon get a Warming Centre for the winter period.
Director Erin Rivers told the The Hastings County Community and Human Services Committee on Wednesday that the department has applied for $88,000 to support the operation for such a centre.
Special provincial funds have been designated for Remote and Rural Homelessness Funds to help these areas address the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak among people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
The province has announced an additional $2.6 million for this work.
In April, Hastings County was successful in receiving $40,000 to secure temporary accommodations for asymptomatic people experiencing homelessness in North Hastings during the pandemic.
