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  TORONTO -- The mystery of why virtually all of the seniors and 74 workers became infected with COVID-19 at Roberta Place long-term care is now becoming clear -- one of the new variants of the novel coronavirus was behind the outbreak. Six residents at the home in Barrie, Ont. have now been confirmed to be infected with one of the new and highly contagious variants. “This has been a very tragic and heartbreaking outbreak,” Dr. Colin Lee, Associate Medical Officer of Health at Simcoe-Muskoka District Health said Thursday at a press conference. “Just to give you some conte...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The Simcoe Muskoka health unit says only three residents at Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie, Ont., have not contracted COVID-19 amid an outbreak that has claimed 27 lives and infected 124 residents and 81 staff members. The news comes as the health unit reports two more deaths on Friday. Additionally, there are nine new infections listed in the past 24 hours, two residents and seven staff members. Meanwhile, there are concerns surrounding staffing. On Friday, Ontario director of the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) Ian Dewaard says these are tr...

TORONTO — Schools in just seven public health units in southern Ontario will reopen to in-person learning on Monday while the rest will continue teaching students online, the province announced Wednesday.

COVID-19 variant discovered at Barrie LTC home amid massive outbreak by Michael Ranger Last Updated Jan 21, 2021 at 8:28 am EDT Nearly all residents and staff Roberta Place Long-Term Care in Barrie, ON are reportedly infected with COVID-19. Image: Google streetview A COVID-19 variant has been discovered at a Barrie long-term care home. The strain was found in six tests and comes in the midst of a massive outbreak at Roberta Place Long Term Care. A second test still needs to be conducted to determine the exact strain but the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit says the initial test shows a hig...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The health unit reports a dip in the daily number of COVID-19 cases across Simcoe Muskoka on Wednesday, with 47 new infections, but the death toll continues to reach new heights. The region's medical officer of health, Dr.Charles Gardner, says he is cautiously optimistic by the case numbers, but the rising death toll in the region is cause for concern. "We have had a very tragic large number of deaths occur over the past week," Gardner said. "This is certainly the greatest number of people who have passed away in a week in our history in Simcoe Muskoka from the pandemi...