Dear Family and Friends of South Cove Manor:

On Saturday, January 23rd, we again tested 100% of our residents and staff. Thankfully, no new positive cases were identified. With this round of negative testing, we have now gone 7 consecutive days with no new positive cases of COVID-19 in our resident and staff population. As a result, we will now revert to testing 100% of staff and residents once a week, instead of the every three-day testing requirement we had been operating under. If we are able to achieve 14 consecutive days with no new positive cases, we will then continue testing 100% of our staff on a weekly basis, but the residents will not have to be tested unless they are showing symptoms, or we identify a new positive case in our staff. 

This news coupled with our second vaccination clinic scheduled for Wednesday, are two more incredibly large steps towards a return to normalcy. Our leadership team will be meeting today reassess our protocols going forward. I will keep you all informed of any changes that we are able to initiate as a result of this positive news.

Also, as a reminder, we have our second COVID-19 vaccination clinic coming up on Wednesday, January 27th. All staff and residents that received the vaccine on January 6th, will receive their second dose on the 27th.  Any staff member or resident that declined to receive the vaccine on the 6th, are also eligible to receive the first dose of the vaccine on the 27th. 

Please feel free to reach out to Li Chen or I with any questions that you may have.

Thank you again for placing your trust in South Cove Manor.

親愛中華頤養院的家人和朋友：

1月23日（星期六），我們再次對100％的院民和員工進行了測試。值得慶幸的是，沒有發現新的陽性病例。經過這一輪的測試結果陰性，我們現在已經連續7天沒有院民和工作人員中出現新的新冠陽性病例。因此，我們現在將恢復到每週一次對100％的員工和院民進行測試，而不是我們之前一直進行的每三天測試一次。如果我們能夠連續14天沒有新的陽性病例，那麼我們將每周繼續對我們的員工進行100％的檢測，但除非院民出現症狀或我們確定了員工新的陽性病例，否則無需進行檢測。

另外，謹在此提醒您，我們將於1月27日星期三開設第二輪新冠疫苗接種診所。所有在1月6日接種疫苗的工作人員和院民將在27日接受第二劑疫苗。在6日拒絕接受疫苗的任何工作人員或院民，也有資格在27日接受第一劑疫苗。

再次感謝您對中華頤養院的信任。

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