RECORD 87 COVID CASES TODAY — ALL IN SIMCOE COUNTIES

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — While another Muskoka COVID case was moved to another jurisdiction, the local health unit says today that a record 87 corona cases were confirmed in Simcoe yesterday.

A previously reported case in Gravenhurst was also among four re-assigned to different Public Health Units.

And that the three deaths in Muskoka last year were a Muskoka Lakes Township resident April 9, and two last month — one Dec. 11 at a Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare hospital Dec. 11 and one who died after being transferred to Royal Victoria Hospital Dec. 27.

They are among 70 pandemic deaths reported by SMDHU.

There have been 3,722 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered in Simcoe North and Muskoka, mainly to health care workers in local hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes.

There have been 398 new cases reported by the health unit for the current week. There were 378 new cases last week starting Sunday Dec. 27.

This as Ontario reported 3,266 cases and 37 deaths; Quebec 2,641 and 47 deaths and Manitoba 176 cases and 10 deaths.

Province-wide, York Region soared to 349 cases, Toronto 837, Peel 523, Windsor-Essex 208, Waterloo region 206, Durham 145 and Halton 100.

IN OTHER COVID NEWS:

  • Canada has now detected 11 cases of the coronavirus variant first reported in the U.K.
  • The Toronto Star says a former Ontario computer specialist who allegedly defrauded the province of $11 million took tens of thousand of dollars to India.
  • Federal Conservatives complain vaccine going to prisons for aging and at-risk inmates.
  • Canadian IOC official Dick Pound says athletes should get priority for this summer’s planned Tokyo Olympic Games.
A record day of COVID cases today Jan. 6 sees no reports for Muskoka.

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