Eight Barrie residents among 46 new COVID cases in region today
Simcoe-Muskoka health unit has administered 93,483 vaccine doses, including 3,730 on Tuesday
Mar 31, 2021 2:43 PM By: Erika Engel
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported 46 new COVID-19 cases in today s update.
There are 447 active, lab-confirmed cases in the region, most of which are in Simcoe County.
The health unit has reported 1,266 cases have screened positive and/or been confirmed with sequencing as variant cases. Of those, 221 are still active cases. Screening and sequencing tests can take several days, and sometimes results are not returned until after the individual has recovered.
Sequencing and PCR tests have confirmed 852 cases of the B.1.1.7 (variant strain that originated in the UK) in Simcoe-Muskoka. There have also been 18 cases of the P.1 variant that first originated in Brazil in the region and one case of the B.1.351 strain that originat
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COVID-19 Simcoe Muskoka: Health unit reports 37 new variant cases and 39 new COVID-19 cases
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A retired Peel Region cop’s wife is in quarantine in her long-term care facility yet again even though she’s had two doses of the COVID vaccine.
Barry Turnbull says Ann has been confined to her room in Barrie’s Mill Creek Care Centre since last weekend after a staff member from her section tested positive for the coronavirus,
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This is the third time she’s been locked down and Turnbull said it means his wife must consume her meals alone in the room and cannot leave to have a shower down the hall.