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  BARRIE, ONT. -- Simcoe Muskoka's health unit reports the number of COVID-19 variant cases has nearly doubled Wednesday, increasing to 90 diagnoses, with an additional 57 possible cases. Health officials noted the variant requires two tests to detect - those 57 people have so far screened positive and are waiting on results from a second test to confirm. The new coronavirus strain has been identified at a Barrie, Ont., long-term care home devastated by an outbreak that has claimed 66 lives. More than 230 residents and staff at Roberta Place have been diagnosed since the outbreak was dec...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 variant cases in Simcoe Muskoka nearly tripled in the past 24 hours, jumping from 19 to 51 on Tuesday. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports another 94 patients are waiting on a second test to confirm whether they too are infected with the variant. Health officials grow increasingly concerned, saying the U.K. variant is "50 per cent more contagious" and "it's able to find little holes in our armour," according to Dr. Colin Lee, SMDHU associate medical officer of health said Friday.  Public health says the best protecti...

University of British Columbia evolutionary biology professor Sally Otto and infectious diseases physician Zain Chagla answered listeners’ questions about COVID-19 variants and vaccines as part of the show’s regular Ask Me Anything series.

Try refreshing your browser. Are nursing home residents' lives expendable? Back to video This week we have learned that at least 63 residents and staff (at last count) died as a result of one of the new COVID variants at Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie. My mother lived there for four years, and my heart goes out to the families, residents and staff. Most advocates indicate that most of these deaths could have been prevented. How you might ask? • If our provincial government had acted sooner. • If there had been more oversight from the provincial government, as well as regul...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The City of Barrie has joined the province-wide COVID-19 wastewater surveillance initiative to help shed light on whether the number of infected residents is up, down or stagnant. Dr. Lisa Simon, associate medical officer of health with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, said the surveillance serves as a tool to understand the virus "within our communities." Research shows that most people with an active COVID-19 infection shed the virus through their stool, at times even before symptoms trigger. The city will provide samples collected from Barrie's Wastewater Tr...