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Daughter relieved her father may get traditional Metis farewell
January 3, 2021 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Joy and relief have taken over Melanie Fournier’s fear of not being able to give her father a traditional Metis farewell.
Until a couple weeks ago, her father Al Fournier was with his wife at their Midland home.
“About a week ago, he had a heart attack,” said Melanie Fournier talking about her father, who is currently at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) with multiple health issues, including a blocked artery and diabetes.
“Now he’s having kidney issues and he’s on dialysis, so that’s what’s pretty much keeping him good.”
BARRIE The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 74 new cases Thursday, for a total of 392 cases this week. This week’s case total also includes December 25th and December 26th. There are currently 998 active cases across the region with 33 infected people in hospital. According to the Health Unit, a male from Simcoe County 65 to 79 years-old has died from the virus at Georgian Bay General Hospital and a male ranging in age from 45 to 64 from Muskoka has also passed away. The Muskoka resident was being cared for at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre when he died. Most COVID-19 cases in Simcoe Muskoka are from the Barrie and South Simcoe areas and nearly one-third of all active cases are among young adults 18-34 years.
BARRIE, ONT. A Barrie-based long-term care worker is the first person in Simcoe Muskoka to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday morning, a nurse with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit administered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID -19 vaccine to Lori Black, a personal support worker caring for seniors at Victoria Village on Ross Street in Barrie. Black said she volunteered to be immunized to help others. I work on different units, so I can expose myself to over 100 residents, family members, coworkers within a week, so this is my way of fighting for them. They are the most vulnerable, and this is my way to help protect them, myself, as well as everybody else in my workplace as well as in the community, she said.