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Four days COVID case free

'Ontario has tragically lost 5,846 lives to this deadly virus. We mourn the passing of each and every person'
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The North Bay-Parry Sound Health Unit has not reported a new case of COVID in the district for four consecutive days.

In its update this morning the case count remains at 186, the same as last Thursday. There are just three active cases according to the report.

Of those cases all are self-isolating. Today, Premier Doug Ford and Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, issued the following statement to mark significant milestones since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ontario on January 25, 2020:

Meanwhile, in the neighbouring health unit of Simcoe Muskoka reports an additional individual with the United Kingdom (UK) variant of COVID-19 within the region.

"This individual had close contact with a person who is also part of a COVID-19 outbreak at Bradford Valley Care Community, a long-term care home in Bradford West Gwillimbury. As such, SMDHU is currently investigating if this outbreak is also due to the UK variant of COVID-19," said Dr. Charles Gardner, SMDHU’s Medical Officer of Health.

“Given this situation, we are working together in partnership with the residence to implement additional measures to contain the spread while pursuing the necessary tests to determine if it is the UK variant of COVID-19 that is the cause of this outbreak,”

On Friday, The Timiskaming Health Unit declared an outbreak at Extendicare Tri-Town in Haileybury.

"Three staff have tested positive as part of the provincial asymptomatic surveillance program," says a news release. "The cases are currently under investigation and the individuals are self-isolating."

Contact tracing is underway and those who have been identified as close contacts have been, or are in the process of being notified.

“We are announcing an outbreak with three new cases today. Although we declared yesterday that our district had zero active COVID-19 cases, we know how quickly the situation can change,” said Dr. Glenn Corneil, Acting Medical Officer of Health and CEO for the Timiskaming Health Unit. “We are working with partners to make sure that all precautions are in place for resident and staff safety.”

Today marks one year to the day that the first COVID-19 case was discovered in Ontario.

"A year ago today, we were presented with one of the most difficult challenges in our history with the confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 in Ontario," said Premier Ford.

The rapid spread of the virus through the province, the country and around the world would lead the World Health Organization to declare COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020.  

Since then, Ontario has tragically lost 5,846 lives to the deadly virus.


Jeff Turl

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