GRANITE RIDGE RESIDENT NOW COVID POSITIVE; SHE IS AMONG 75 IN REGION TODAY
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend.
After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) there.
This time involving a woman over age 80.
Full test results from last week’s swabs of residents and staff haven’t been released by Granite Ridge as of today.
The soaring number of cases to start November are fraction of the more than 450 new cases reported in October, which itself was more than double what was reported in any previous month.
That after the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit says last week there were 124 new cases, which was the highest number of cases in a single week since the start of the pandemic.
Today’s numbers, which may be the fallout from Thanksgiving family gatherings, included 10 people under age 18; 23 in New Tecumseth; 12 in Barrie; 8 in Innisfil and 1 in Wasaga Beach, a woman also over age 80.
More details are expected tomorrow in a weekly briefing by Dr. Charles Gardner, the region’s chief medical officer of health
All this as Ontario reported 948 cases Monday Nov. 2, and Quebec 965.
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