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  BARRIE, ONT. -- Eighty-nine COVID-19 cases were reported Wednesday across Simcoe Muskoka, plus three more virus-related deaths. Public health says a man and woman over 80 and a woman between 45 and 64, all from Simcoe County, died from complications of the virus. Their deaths raise the number of lives lost to COVID-19 to 215.  So far this year, 144 Simcoe Muskoka residents lost their lives after becoming infected. In the first 14 days of April, 13 residents reportedly passed from COVID-19. In March, the health unit reported 12 individuals died. February marks the second deadliest mont...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- Dippie Carisse celebrated her 100th birthday from inside the walls of Roberta Place long-term care home in Barrie as her family stood outside with balloons. "My mother was a Dutch war bride. She married a French-Canadian in Holland and came over in 1947 to Canada and made Canada her home," says her son, Hess. Ever the independent woman, Mrs. Carisse lived alone and drove herself around until the age of 95. Last year, she moved into Roberta Place - just before COVID-19 took hold and devastated the seniors' facility. Mrs. Carisse was among the more than 200 people infec...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- The past year living in a pandemic has been especially challenging for health-care and frontline workers. "This has been a gruelling, scary year during which our staff and physicians worried for their own safety and that of their families," says Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) President and CEO Janice Skot. The Barrie hospital's president recalls one year ago when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. "In those early days, directives and guidelines changed constantly as the world learned more about the novel coronavirus. It was uncharte...

Timeline: A year of pandemic life in Toronto by Michael Ranger Last Updated Mar 11, 2021 at 1:29 pm EDT The signs in Yonge Dundas Square show COVID-19 messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic as only essential industries are open as the province shut down non-essential services and industries to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in Toronto. March 30, 2020. (Steve Russell/via Getty Images) It has been exactly one year since the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. Later that same day the NBA was forced stop all of their games when they discovered a...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- One year ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic as a virus spread like wildfire across the globe, effectively changing everyday life. In the days and weeks that followed, shaking hands became a thing of the past, while wearing face masks, using hand sanitizer and isolating became the new normal. March 11, 2020, also marked the first virus-related death in Simcoe County after an elderly patient died from complications related to COVID-19 at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie. It was also the first COVID-related death...