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BARRIE Up to now, the only location able to deliver the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine was at the clinic on Sperling Drive, but on Monday, that all changed. The mass vaccination clinic at the Holly Recreation Centre on Mapleton Avenue in Barrie officially opened its doors, one of several clinics now ready to offer the vaccine. Simcoe Muskoka s top doctor, Dr. Charles Gardner, calls the opening a piece of history in the making. We greatly expanded the base of immunization throughout all of Simcoe Muskoka from one fixed site to 13 through the course of the week, he says. Other clinics, including the one at the Collingwood Legion along with others at the Alliston Memorial Arena and Hunstville Active Centre, also opened.
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The Grey Bruce Health Unit declared an active COVID-19 outbreak at Brucelea Haven in Walkerton Monday after a staff member tested positive for the virus.
According to the health unit’s website, the outbreak affects the 3 South and 2 West units at the home.
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Dr. Ian Arra, Grey-Bruce’s medical officer of health, said a single staff member has tested positive for the virus. No other members of the staff or residents at the home have tested positive.
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Eligible residents in Muskoka are now able to get the COVID-19 vaccine with clinics set-up in Bracebridge and Huntsville, but Gravenhurst’s Mayor is frustrated that once again they have been overlooked when it comes to healthcare services.
“It’s been an ongoing issue with regard to this community and being left behind for many many years,” Mayor Paul Kelly tells the MyMuskokaNow.com newsroom.
Adults 85 years or older, Indigenous adults 55 years and older, as well as their adult household members, adult recipients of chronic home care, and very high priority frontline healthcare workers, are able to get inoculated by going to the Bracebridge Sportsplex or the Active Living Centre in Huntsville. No location has been set-up in Gravenhurst.
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Municipal politicians in Collingwood and Wasaga Beach are petitioning the provincial government to move them out of lockdown, questioning the wisdom of the move with their neighbour Grey-Bruce in the green.
At a special meeting of Collingwood’s municipal council Monday, council members voted unanimously in support of a motion seeking to have Premier Doug Ford explain the rationale of moving Collingwood into a lockdown, along with the entire Simcoe-Muskoka region, while the abutting municipality to the west moves to the green.
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