Health Unit issues order to help bring outbreak at Barrie long-term care home under control mymuskokanow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mymuskokanow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Barrie PSW describes absolute terror of staff, residents in COVID-19 ravaged LTC centre
As of Monday afternoon, 53 staff members and 63 residents have tested positive for the virus; There have also been nine resident deaths
Jan 19, 2021 9:02 AM By: Shawn Gibson
For the families of people living at Roberta Place, as well as those working inside the Essa Road facility, these past several days have been filled with stress and fear.
For the past two and a half years, Karen Fokkens DeBeer’s mother, Jane, has been living at Roberta Place long-term care home, the facility in south-end Barrie that has been ravaged by COVID-19 in recent weeks, including nine resident deaths.
Ontario’s Vaccination Rollout Plan Facing Delays Amid Shortage of Pfizer Vaccines
Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout plan will slow down due to the announcement by Pfizer-BioNTech last week that it is temporarily delaying international shipments of the vaccines due to upgrading of its production facilities in Europe, Premier Doug Ford said on Jan. 19.
“The news from the federal government today that Canada won’t get any new Pfizer vaccines next week, and far fewer than expected in the coming weeks, it’s troubling. It’s a massive concern,” Ford said at a press conference.
“My message to the federal government is that nothing else matters right now. Every day we’re giving up less vaccines than we have the capacity to administer is a day we lose.”
Two new cases of COVID-19 added in Muskoka by Health Unit mymuskokanow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mymuskokanow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.