Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Call it a health and safety meeting. Business advocates — “under strain and risk” — confronted the personal and professional challenges of COVID head-on in a virtual face-off with the region’s medical officer of health. Four Muskoka chamber of commerce executive directors met with Dr. Charles Gardner to “share […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskokans returned to COVID status today as a “third wave’ is confirmed. The three people — two from Muskoka Lakes and one from Huntsville — were under the age of 18 and ranged up to age 64. And were among 44 as reported Wednesday by the Simcoe Muskoka District […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — More vaccines, more people, more inoculations and more good news — finally. After weeks and months of concern in Muskoka over the pandemic and vaccine rollout, the arrival of additional — if limited — doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine is a small, but welcoming comfort to many Muskokans. Doctors […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Community members are saddened by the sudden and “tragic” death of another prominent business person in town. Dap Thach died at his home early yesterday morning. He was 48. The popular local accountant had just gotten up about 8 a.m. when he collapsed and died, said his father-in-law Sang […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As vaccinations ramp up today so do COVID cases in Simcoe with 71 more people testing positive. Muskoka had no new cases. But a new vaccine did reach Muskoka Tuesday, with the first of 360 doses of the AstraZeneca being handed out this week at the Algonquin and Cottage […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A pandemic milestone passed Sunday as the region had cases 7,000 and 7,001. Both were in Simcoe and among 120 reported Monday by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). A Lake of Bays man, 18-34, was among them. He is under investigation after reporting on Feb. 24 with […]

SIMCOE MUSKOKA — It was probably to be expected. As the province opened its vaccine booking centre at 8 a.m. this morning — and after weeks locally of difficulty getting said appointments or least of all on the waiting list — the local public health says they were left out of the online loop as […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — On Valentine’s Day your sweetheart would have seen 31 cases of COVID in Simcoe-Muskoka. Today, a month later, there are 50 cases. And in the past week — Sunday to Sunday — there have been 324 cases, shows a look at provincial numbers. Those eight days, March 7-14, cases […]