19 people dead, 122 residents and 69 staff positive for COVID at Roberta Place
Roberta Place is located on Essa Road in Barrie's south end. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday There is now evidence a COVID-19 variant has reached Simcoe County and may have led to the devastating outbreak at Roberta Place in south-end Barrie that has now claimed 19 lives. Laboratory testing has identified a COVID variant in six swabs from the Essa Road long-term care home. The variant strain testing is a two-part test. At this time, the first test indicates a "very high probability" that they are of a variant strain of concern. The second part of the test is a whole genome sequencing test to det...
Source: barrietoday.com