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Article content The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be limited to people over the age of 30 who don’t want to wait for Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization said Monday. The advice is almost identical to that issued by the expert panel for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine last month and comes as both are suspected of causing a new and exceedingly rare blood-clotting syndrome. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ...

  TORONTO -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he is working to formalize a request made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to suspend the arrival of international students in the province. Speaking to reporters late Friday morning, Trudeau said Ontario is the only province making such a request and they are “happy to work more narrowly with them.” “We’ll be reaching out to their officials today to formalize that request,” Trudeau said. International students are currently exempt...

Article content Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of governing a country like Canada. Contrary to popular belief, our political leaders are not idiots — at least many of them are not. But they face competing interests that often makes inertia the path of least resistance. In the case of Canada’s border policy during the pandemic, the federal government is under pressure to relax restrictions from businesses and returning Canadians insisting on their Charter mobility rights. A group...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- A long-time personal support worker for Roberta Place, sickened by COVID-19 during an outbreak at the Barrie long-term care home, is recovering from a double lung transplant. Edwin Ngs family tells CTV News the 48-year-old father of three underwent surgery on Sunday. His son Joey calls the nine-hour surgery a success and says his dad should be able to sit up by Tuesday. Ng first experienced symptoms of COVID-19 on Jan. 11 and tested positive for the virus two days later....

Article content Before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got around to thinking of closing the barn door, the horse has bolted and there is no getting it back. I’m talking about the appearance of COVID-19 variant B.1.617 being discovered in a town north of Trois-Rivières, Que. The B.1.617 variant is the double-mutant variant, first discovered in India and thought to be ripping through that country now as it deals with a horrible and deadly upsurge of COVID. With this case confirmed, it looks lik...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- Eighty-nine COVID-19 cases were reported Wednesday across Simcoe Muskoka, plus three more virus-related deaths. Public health says a man and woman over 80 and a woman between 45 and 64, all from Simcoe County, died from complications of the virus. Their deaths raise the number of lives lost to COVID-19 to 215.  So far this year, 144 Simcoe Muskoka residents lost their lives after becoming infected. In the first 14 days of April, 13 residents reportedly passed from COVID-...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- Dippie Carisse celebrated her 100th birthday from inside the walls of Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie as her family stood outside with balloons. "My mother was a Dutch war bride. She married a French-Canadian in Holland and came over in 1947 to Canada and made Canada her home," says her son, Hess. Ever the independent woman, Mrs. Carisse lived alone and drove herself around until the age of 95. Last year, she moved into Roberta Place - just before COVID-19 to...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The past year living in a pandemic has been especially challenging for health-care and frontline workers. "This has been a gruelling, scary year during which our staff and physicians worried for their own safety and that of their families," says Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) President and CEO Janice Skot. The Barrie hospitals president recalls one year ago when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. "In those early days, directives and gu...

Timeline: A year of pandemic life in Toronto by Michael Ranger Last Updated Mar 11, 2021 at 1:29 pm EDT The signs in Yonge Dundas Square show COVID-19 messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic as only essential industries are open as the province shut down non-essential services and industries to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto. March 30, 2020. (Steve Russell/via Getty Images) It has been exactly one year since the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a gl...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- One year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic as a virus spread like wildfire across the globe, effectively changing everyday life. In the days and weeks that followed, shaking hands became a thing of the past, while wearing face masks, using hand sanitizer and isolating became the new normal. March 11, 2020, also marked the first virus-related death in Simcoe County after an elderly patient died from complications related to COVID-19 ...