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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has confirmed a second person has died as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak at Skyline Lancelot Apartments.
The health unit reported Tuesday that the individual tested positive for COVID-19 and had a preliminary positive result for a variant of concern.
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The individual, who the health unit has not identified, is the second COVID-19 related death in Nipissing District.
Last week, 75-year-old retired Ontario Provincial Police officer, Doug Arthur, who was a resident of Lancelot Apartments, died as a result of the outbreak.
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The Downtown Improvement Area wants the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit to reevaluate restrictions placed on small business during the current stay-at-home order.
The downtown is ready to re-open, “and we are prepared to do so in a safe manner,” Michelle Trudeau, chair of the Downtown North Bay & Waterfront board of directors, writes in a letter to Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams, Dr. Jim Chirico, the local health unit’s medical officer of health, Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli, Mayor Al McDonald and city coucil.
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NORTH BAY, Ont. Public health officials say a second person has died in connection with a COVID-19 outbreak at a North Bay, Ont., apartment building where a variant of the virus has been found.