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U.K. COVID-19 variant found at long-term care home in Barrie, Ont.
TORONTO Health officials identified a U.K. variant of COVID-19 at a long-term care home reeling from a deadly outbreak in Barrie, Ont., Saturday as the province recorded a slightly lower daily virus case count.
Jan 23, 2021 1:49 PM By: Canadian Press
TORONTO Health officials identified a U.K. variant of COVID-19 at a long-term care home reeling from a deadly outbreak in Barrie, Ont., Saturday as the province recorded a slightly lower daily virus case count.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said genome sequencing on six COVID-19 samples from Roberta Place Retirement Lodge have been identified as the highly contagious B117 variant.
Victoria Ahearn
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TORONTO - Health officials identified a U.K. variant of COVID-19 at a long-term care home reeling from a deadly outbreak in Barrie, Ont., Saturday as the province recorded a slightly lower daily virus case count.
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said genome sequencing on six COVID-19 samples from Roberta Place Retirement Lodge have been identified as the highly contagious B117 variant.
Officials with the local health unit announced earlier this week that they had found a variant at the home north of Toronto and conducted tests to determine what it was. Known variant strains of the virus were first detected in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil.
Health unit reports 112 new COVID cases in the county today, including 65 in Barrie
Health officials also release more information on the deaths that have been linked to Roberta Place outbreak in Barrie
Jan 22, 2021 2:57 PM By: Erika Engel
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit offices are located on Sperling Drive in north-end Barrie. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported 112 new COVID-19 cases in the region today, and seven deaths.
All seven deaths, which were previously reported by
BarrieToday, were residents of Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie. They include a man and a woman over 80 years old who died on Jan. 21, three women over 80 who died on Jan. 20, a woman between 65 and 79 years old who died on Jan. 20 and a man over 80 who died Jan. 10.
Roberta Place is located on Essa Road in Barrie s south end. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday
There is now evidence a COVID-19 variant has reached Simcoe County and may have led to the devastating outbreak at Roberta Place in south-end Barrie that has now claimed 19 lives.
Laboratory testing has identified a COVID variant in six swabs from the Essa Road long-term care home.
The variant strain testing is a two-part test. At this time, the first test indicates a very high probability that they are of a variant strain of concern. The second part of the test is a whole genome sequencing test to determine the exact strain. The results are expected in the next three to four days.