Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Give me a break! That’s the shocked response today, as Public Health Ontario (PHO) is reporting another 113 COVID cases in Simcoe-Muskoka. PHO doesn’t break down numbers for Muskoka and Simcoe. That will come Monday when the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reports in cases for Friday, Saturday and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Fears that COVID is striking younger people comes home as two more Muskoka men are among the latest 100 regional victims of the virus today. The Gravenhurst and Huntsville residents, both aged 18-34, are under investigation after being first reported yesterday and the day before, with first incidents April […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Prince of a guy. That’s how Gravenhurst and Muskoka residents are remembering Prince Philip who died this morning. He was 99. In 1959 he and Queen Elizabeth II made a short stop in Gravenhurst, on July 4, to christen the new Barge at Gull Lake Park. It was a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The rubber hit the road yesterday when Premier Doug Ford shot back at critics who said they were “playing politics” over his refusal to offer COVID paid sick leave days. His pro-business government is being accused of giving to and taking from workers. While it offered more vaccines for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Getting a vaccine shot is getting easier — but it still takes time, effort as possibly travel. And if you can travel to another community, under new stay-at-home orders going to medical appointments is an acceptable reason to leave your home. A five-minute call to the provincial hotline yesterday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Day 1 of the latest stay-at-home order sees the province reporting 124 COVID cases in Simcoe-Muskoka this morning — while the health unit countered in the afternoon with 84. A Bracebridge man, 45-64, is under investigation after first being reported yesterday, following a first episode the day before. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — A steady stream of people coming and going at local vaccination clinics are showing signs of some public ease after weeks of angst. Local provincial sites organized by the health unit — in association with primary physicians and paramedics — are doing brisk business. This as the province shifts […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two young Huntsville females are among 84 local COVID cases today as the province announced new stay-at-home orders for the next 28 days. Half the cases are under age 35 and 85 per cent of the cases as variants of concern (VOC). And on the eve of the spring […]