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17 Barrie residents among 44 new COVID cases in region today Overall, 92 local cases have tested positive for the UK variant and an additional 77 have screened positive and await confirmatory testing Feb 5, 2021 2:36 PM By: Erika Engel The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit offices are located on Sperling Drive in north-end Barrie. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has reported 44 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths in the region in its update today.  The deaths reported today include two Bradford West Gwillimbury women who w...

Public Health Sudbury & Districts is reporting three new cases of COVID-19. The agency states all three cases are in Greater Sudbury. Considering resolved cases, there is a decrease in active cases at 56. Health Sciences North has 13 admitted patients. Of those six are confirmed cases with two in intensive care. The other seven are waiting for test results. And Algoma Public Health is reporting 25 active cases in the district with two people in the hospital. UK variant found in Sudbury … Public Health Sudbury & Districts received confirmation from Public Health Ontario that an individual in...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is seen during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld The NDP is calling for the elimination of for-profit long-term care by 2030 in a multibillion-dollar plan presented as a potential election promise. New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says an NDP government would convene provincial and territorial leaders, experts and workers to set national standards for nursing homes, and tether those benchmarks to $5 billion in federal funding. The proposal is the latest move in anticipation of...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The Simcoe Muskoka health unit reports 58 new COVID-19 cases across the region and one new variant case, for a total of 91 on Thursday. The health unit lists 60 more possible variant cases but are awaiting test results for confirmation. According to a new report, more than five per cent of positive COVID-19 cases collected in January in a major Ontario study tested positive for highly infectious coronavirus variants of concern. Of the 1,880 positive samples from Jan. 20 that were analyzed, 103, or 5.5 per cent were confirmed or highly likely to be either the UK B.1.1.7...

  TORONTO -- More than five per cent of positive COVID-19 cases collected last month in a major Ontario study tested positive for highly infectious coronavirus variants of concern, according to a new report. Of the 1,880 positive samples from January 20 that were analyzed, 103, or 5.5 per cent were confirmed or highly likely to be either the UK B.1.1.7 or South African B.1.353 variants of concern. Of those, 89 were from the Simcoe-Muskoka public health unit, with 85 of those directly linked to the Roberta Place long-term care home outbreak where 66 of 127 residents of the home have now d...