The County of Renfrew has confirmed a second resident at Miramichi Lodge in Pembroke has died of COVID-19. There are currently three residents in the Home’s COVID Care Unit. Two residents have remained asymptomatic throughout the isolation with the positive results picked up through the Home’s ongoing surveillance testing. The other resident is now asymptomatic, had previously tested negative but recently received a positive result. The county says that staff are also tested regularly on an ongoing basis. Currently, there is one positive staff result – that employee is isolating at home and had no close contacts identified through contact tracing. The residents received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine on February 8th followed by their second dose on March 8th – only one resident was unable to receive it. Eighty-two percent of staff have been vaccinated to date with more scheduled and 98% of essential caregivers are vaccinated.