10 MUSKOKA COVID CASES TODAY AMONG 248 THIS YEAR
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — It’s a double-digit day for Muskoka as the health unit reports 248 cases for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
That’s an average of 82.66666666666667 over the past three days to start 2021.
Ten of them ranging in age from under 18 to up to 79 were in the northern half of Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU).
They include:
- Bracebridge: Female, 18-34, educational outbreak
- Bracebridge: Female, 35-44, under investigation
- Bracebridge: Male, 45-64, under investigation
- Georgian Bay: Male, 65-79, close contact
- Lake of Bays: Female, 45-64, under investigation
- Gravenhurst: Male, 0-17, close contact
- Gravenhurst: Male, 18-34, under investigation
- Gravenhurst: Male, 45-64, close contact
- Huntsville: Female, 35-64, close contact
- Huntsville: Male, 0-17, close contact
This as a COVID respiratory outbreak was declared late last week, Dec. 29, at the Roger’s Cove retirement residence in Huntsville. It is one of 15 current institutional outbreaks.
Another 231 cases today were in Simcoe and the home location of the other 7 positively-tested people was pending, according the SMDHU’s Health Stats page.
On New Year’s Eve, last Thursday Dec. 31, the health unit reported 74 cases.
Though high, the Jan. 4 numbers are still promising news.
As MuskokaTODAY reported a month ago, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said that with a 1.8 per cent average daily growth in early December that if that trajectory continued, by the final week of 2020 the five-day count could have been as high as 450 new cases Dec. 27 to Jan. 2.
The health unit adds that for the most recent week, the average daily growth in confirmed cases was 1.6%. And based on projections, it says that if this level of growth continues there will be about 600 cases the week of Jan. 24 to 30 — or about 85 cases per day with a projected weekly incidence rate of 101 cases per 100,000 population.
Today’s cases are among 3,270 Ontario cases, which include the deaths of 29 more people.
Province-wide, numbers are similar in York Region 389, Toronto 917, Peel 581 and Windsor-Essex 246.
Quebec reported 2,546 cases and 32 dead; Manitoba 118 positive tests and 5 deceased.
NOTES:
The province said today that three new strains of the U.K. variant of the coronavirus are now in Ontario, affecting 6 people, including 1 in a person in York Region.
An Alberta cabinet minister who went to Hawaii to keep up an annual holiday tradition is among several politicians fired or demoted, including Premier Jason Kenney chief of staff.
Toronto to start reporting outbreaks on Monday where there are at least two confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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