Local Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
CORNWALL – The Eastern Ontario Health Unit says it’s just starting to receive COVID-19 nasal rapid testing options.
That’s despite schools being back in class a couple of weeks with a promise from the Ontario government there would be access to targeted asymptomatic testing, including lab-processed PCR and rapid antigen tests.
“We have just started to receive them (rapid tests) right now. We haven’t received them before,” Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis told Cornwall Newswatch Thursday.
“We have, however, four rapid ID NOWs and we are starting to use those and we have a protocol in place,” Roumeliotis said. The ID NOW test can be done by throat, as well as nasal and nasal pharyngeal.
The United Counties of SD&G administration building at 26 Pitt Street in Cornwall, Ont. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
SD&G – The United Counties of SD&G is going into budget talks this week with a preliminary decrease of a fraction of 1 per cent on the county portion of property taxes.
The draft $69.6 million budget is about $2.2 million larger than it was last year. But the county plans to collect $20,175 fewer tax dollars compared to last year. Total taxation is around $50.6 million.
That’s due in part to property growth. The value of all properties in SD&G grew by $70.5 million year over year, meaning thousands more tax dollars and spreading the burden over more households and businesses.
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CORNWALL – A Cornwall man, accused of an incestuous relationship with his adult daughter, has died before his trial, Cornwall Newswatch has learned.
The 55-year-old man had been scheduled for a four day trial by a judge in late September but the proceeding was cancelled. It was rescheduled to start next week (Feb. 16-19, 2021).
However, the accused died at his home in early December.
He had been charged in October 2018 with two counts each of sexual assault and incest.
Police say the victim was 31 years old at the time of the alleged assaults, which were said to have happened twice in December 2017.
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