BARRIE, ONT. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports 68 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, plus two new virus-related deaths. The region s death toll has hit 75 with the passing of two seniors. There are 1,206 active cases, including 33 infected patients hospitalized. The SMDHU has declared the outbreak at Georgian Bay General Hospital in Midland now over. This after the hospital battled a stubborn spread of the virus, that infected patients and staff members since being declared in early December. There are currently 11 active institutional outbreaks listed by the health unit across Simcoe Muskoka, including eight long-term care and retirement homes, one childcare centre in Wasaga Beach, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie, and Waypoint Mental Health Hospital in Penetanguishene.
BARRIE, ONT. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 226 new cases and two recent deaths over the last three days. The health unit says a man between the ages of 65 and 79 connected to an out-of-region outbreak died Jan. 6. A woman older than 80 passed away Friday. She had been a patient at Georgian Bay General Hospital and is the seventh death associated with an outbreak declared at the Midland facility in early December. Seventy-three people with the virus have died in Simcoe Muskoka since the pandemic began, and the region has seen a total of 4,309 infections. There are 1,271 active cases. Thirty-five people with the virus are in hospitals across the region, including five in intensive care at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre.
BARRIE, ONT. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) logged 87 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including a dozen children. So far this week has a total of 398 confirmed cases, a new weekly record for the region. Despite being in a lockdown, the health unit predicts cases will continue to increase to 600 per week by the last week of January. In the fall, daily cases averaged from less than one to more than 16 per day. Cases began to surge to nearly 50 a day by late-December. There are 1,251 active infections across Simcoe County and Muskoka, including 24 patients in local hospitals. The health unit s medical officer of health, Dr. Charles Gardner, said on Tuesday during a Facebook live briefing that there were 10 additional deaths over the holidays. All of these individuals lived in Simcoe County, none were in Muskoka, he noted. The region s death toll is at 70.