GRANITE RIDGE STAFF MEMBER TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID OCT. 27
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
MUSKOKA — Among 22 new COVID cases today in Simcoe Muskoka is a Gravenhurst woman aged 35-44, due to an institutional outbreak.
The health unit says there was an outbreak of a staff member yesterday, Oct. 27, at the retirement home and LTC on Bethune Drive.
It is deemed a “respiratory outbreak” and is “facility wide.”
The health unit also says a woman 45-64 in Wasaga Beach contracted the disease via “community acquired.”
The women are among 834 people who tested positive for the coronavirus in Ontario, Wednesday Oct. 28, a slight increase from 827 Tuesday.
There were 929 people today reported in Quebec.
This as Canada surpassed 10,000 deaths yesterday since the pandemic began earlier this year.
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit reports 49 deaths.
In a news conference yesterday, Dr. Charles Gardner, the health unit’s chief medical officer of health offered his condolences for two more people who died the past week at Simcoe Manor.
They are among 1,305 cases reported so far in Simcoe Muskoka, which in the past seven days has had 124 new cases.
By comparison, the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has only had just 47 cases and just one the past week, according to Toronto Star tracking. They also report only one death
And to the east, the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit has had 33 deaths among 252 cases, according to the Star. And only four cases this past week.
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