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We must continue driving down our rate of new COVID-19 infections to below the level which fuelled our second wave. This means strengthening our present…

A devastating coronavirus outbreak at a long-term care home in Barrie has finally ended. Roberta place long-term care home said Thursday that the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has formally declared an end to the outbreak that ravaged the home during the second wave of the pandemic, leaving 71 people dead. An outbreak was declared at the home on Jan. 8. Since then, the highly contagious U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) tore through the home infecting more than 250 people, including all but one of the 127 residents. An essential caregiver who frequented the facility also died. “Over the cours...

The COVID-19 outbreak at a Barrie, Ont. long-term care home that took the lives of 71 people and infected more than 200 has been declared over.

COVID-19 outbreak at Roberta Place declared over by News Staff Posted Feb 18, 2021 12:48 pm EDT A COVID-19 outbreak was declared at Roberta Place Long-Term Care in Barrie, ON on Jan. 8, 2021. GOOGLE STREET VIEW The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) has officially declared the outbreak at Roberta Place Long Term Care Home in Barrie resolved. The outbreak began six weeks ago, on Jan. 8, with the more contagious U.K. variant of the virus being identified as the main cause. It quickly became one of the worst outbreaks in a long-term care setting in the province. RELATED: The Red Cross ...

The outbreak, which involved cases of the COVID-19 variant first detected in the U.K., sickened more than 200 people at the home