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Haliburton County now sits at nine active COVID-19 cases after our Health Unit added two over the weekend.
There are three people currently in hospital because of the virus. A total of 98 cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in Haliburton since the pandemic began.
There were 13 new cases reported in Kawartha Lakes and 12 in Northumberland. That puts the active case count in those regions at 39 and 46 respectively.
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit did 600 tests in the past 24 hours. The test positivity rate, which is the percentage of tests coming back positive, is at 3.67-percent.
Students quarantining after coming into contact with positive COVID-19 case
There was another positive case of COVID-19 reported at Haliburton Highlands Secondary School last weekend.
COVID-1923 April 2021
By Mike Baker
An entire bus load of students and at least one classroom from Haliburton County are quarantining after being identified as close contacts of a positive COVID-19 case over the weekend.
In a letter distributed to parents on Sunday [April 18], the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit [HKPRDHU] confirmed that children who travelled on Bus #57 on April 8 could have been exposed to COVID-19 and as such would have to quarantine in their homes until April 22.
Local COVID-19 cases on the rise, MoH calls for residents to remain vigilant
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Dr. Natalie Bocking is the new medical officer of health for the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit, as of April 6.
COVID-1923 April 2021
By Mike Baker
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit [HKPRDHU] is “sounding the alarm” with the recent spike in local COVID-19 cases stretching the capacity of the health unit to its limits.
In the past 14 days, HKPR district health unit has been notified of 282 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and more than 500 high-risk contacts spread across Haliburton County, Kawartha Lakes and Northumberland County.
Haliburton businesses ‘at the breaking point’
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Andrea Strano, president of the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce, says many local businesses are at their ‘breaking point’ after the Ontario government extended its third provincewide lockdown.
COVID-1923 April 2021
By Mike Baker
Commerce has condemned the latest raft of COVID-19 measures implemented by the provincial government, saying further business supports will be required to help entrepreneurs through this prolonged third lockdown.
On Friday [April 16], Premier Doug Ford announced an extension of Ontario’s state of emergency and provincewide stay-at-home order until at least May 20, while introducing a string of other measures, including the closure of recreational amenities such as golf courses and tennis courts, increasing police powers to allow officers to question anybody who is outside of their home and limiting capacity at esse
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