BARRIE, ONT. Two more ski resorts are now open, as officials in ski country plead with visitors to stay put. Collingwood s mayor recently asked residents not to leave town and out-of-towners to stay away, saying, This is not the time to be travelling. Mayor Brian Saunderson isn t the only person worried that tourists from grey-lockdown zones may travel north. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit s medical officer of health, Dr. Charles Gardner, advises the public not to travel between coloured zones. Gardner says he would like Ontario to step in with tougher travel restrictions. It would be helpful for the province to be very vocal about this.
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“It’s a conundrum,” Gravenhurst Mayor Paul Kelly says when asked if Muskoka’s COVID-19 numbers should be reported separately from Simcoe County’s.
As of Wednesday, there have been 113 total cases in the District of Muskoka and 2,627 in Simcoe County.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Charles Gardner said during his weekly briefing Tuesday if Muskoka was separated from Simcoe, it would either be in the green or yellow zone under the province’s colour coded framework.
“I acknowledge there’s a difference in the data (between two areas),” he said.
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“It is going to be the way to get the pandemic under control and help return us to normal lives,” Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s (SMDHU) Medical Officer of Health Dr. Charles Gardner said about the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We don’t know for sure when we will start getting the vaccine,” he said. “It’s possible it could be as early as next week.” Gardner said SMDHU will work with the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie as well as the City of Barrie to distribute the vaccine when they do get it.
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