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68 Barrie residents among 129 new COVID cases in region since Friday Positive cases also include 10 Bradford West Gwillimbury residents, 10 Innisfil residents, four Orillia residents, and one Collingwood resident Feb 1, 2021 3:07 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 129 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths in the region since Friday. All 11 deaths were Barrie residents and include seven women over 80 from...

Barrie long-term care home with outbreak of COVID-19 variant faces lawsuit The unproven statement of claim filed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice alleges the long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., failed to take basic precautionary measures to protect against the novel coronavirus 10 months after the pandemic took hold in Canada. Social Sharing The Canadian Press · Posted: Feb 01, 2021 12:47 PM ET | Last Updated: February 2 Loved ones of residents at Roberta Place are proposing a class-action lawsuit against the home. The statement of claim alleges the facility failed to keep residen...

The death toll at a Barrie long-term care home dealing with an outbreak that has been linked to the highly contagious United Kingdom variant of the virus has climbed to 61.

Author of the article: Derek Baldwin Publishing date: Feb 01, 2021  •  February 1, 2021  •  6 minute read  •  Dr. David Williams, Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health, says of with the UK variant's higher transmissibility in Ontario "there is a high chance that it is moving quite aggressively in some areas and leading to community wide spread.Ó POSTMEDIA FILE jpg, BI Article content A newly emerging United Kingdom COVID-19 variant dubbed B. 1.1.7 in Ontario is triggering more intensive prevention efforts to head off what could become a dominant strain embedding itself acro...

Published Saturday, January 30, 2021 8:18PM EST Two Toronto-area retirement homes are prohibiting visitors from Barrie, where a highly contagious COVID-19 variant first seen in the United Kingdom has been linked to a deadly outbreak at a long-term care home in the city. A spokesperson for Shannex, who operates Parkland on the Glen in Mississauga and Parkland on Eglinton West in Etobicoke, confirmed to CTV News Saturday that they have introduced stricter measures to control the flow of people in their facilities. These include restricting anyone "who has been to a 'high alert...