ONE-DAY BLIP SEES RETURN OF 22 COVID CASES … IN SIMCOE
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
MUSKOKA — We now know the answer to yesterday’s COVID question.
22.
That’s the new number of people with the coronavirus Friday after small hope a day ago.
It’s increase of 8 from Thursday — and again all in Simcoe.
There was nobody in Muskoka who tested positive, says the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit in their daily wrap.
Today’s Oct. 23 list covers a wide geography.
Notably is a male — age 18-34 — at the bottom of the list (below) from Wasaga Beach who had close contact with someone contagious, says the health unit.
Could he be associated with a recent car rally at the Beach, which had police shut down roads to the town without any OPP reports of gathering charges.
Meanwhile, countrywide: Ontario experienced a jump again to 826; and has received the first round of
Quebec fell to 905 after days and days of more than 1,000.
Also in Quebec a supplier there has signed a deal with Ottawa for 76 million doses of a promising vaccines, adding to deals Ottawa has already made with other vaccine makers for similar vacines.
Also nationally, the federal government is gearing up to provide rapid testing.
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