Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Finally … some good news on the always busy COVID news front that’s keeping your ever-vigilant hyper local media in overdrive theses days. After a couple of positive tests at the Pines last week, latest test results for staff have come back negative at the District of Muskoka retirement […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Just when you thought it was safe …. A staff member at the Bracebridge hospital is the latest local case of COVID-19. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) says on its website today the health unit confirmed it. But MAHC did not say if the test was the result of testing […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Good and bad news locally yesterday about COVID testing and results gave way today to more of the former and none of the latter. The health unit is reporting no new cases in Muskoka, Sept. 24 — after 10 were reported the day before as pandemic panic began sweeping […]
GRAVENHURST — As COVID-19 scares ramp up in the wake of 10 new positive tests in Muskoka any closures or signs of cleaners converging on businesses is turning heads. At the Canadian Tire Gas Bar here today the pumps were taped off and men in white haz-mad suits were seen going in and out of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Long line-ups for COVID tests could get shorter as the province partners with pharmacies to provide free testing starting Friday. At the Shopper’s Drug Mart in Huntsville today, Premier Doug Ford said Ontario will begin offering testing by appointment only, at 60 pharmacies with further locations coming online in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Make no mistake — COVID’s second wave slammed into Muskoka today with the might of Teddy. At 1 p.m., the same hour as Premier Doug Ford was in Huntsville at a Shopper’s Drug Mart to announce drug store testing for the coronavirus, at the other end of Simcoe Muskoka […]
HUNTSVILLE — Premier Doug Ford arrives in Huntsville today as word that a school there is the first to have a case of COVID-19 in the local public school board. In an “important letter from the school” sent last night, Spruce Glen Public School principal Kelly Picken said: “We have been notified by the Simcoe […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Today it’s men in Muskoka Lakes and Huntsville. That’s the bad news about COVID-19 locally. First the good news: there were only 10 cases reported by Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Sept. 22. But, wait, more bad news for Ontario — where the public toll today is 478. Media […]