Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Patients and visitors to Muskoka’s two hospitals who may have symptoms of the coronavirus are being segregated in separate waiting spaces as they wait further full assessment. While Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare waits provincial approval to partner in a COVID-19 screening centre, its two sites at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHRST — Advance work Thursday and Friday at Brock Street and Bethune Drive in Gravenhurst is underway as CN Rail plans to move the safety rail arms (wigwags) about a dozen feet closer to the tracks Monday. Dan Dodd, a track supervisor, said on site today, March 19, that it’s part […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Ontario has reported its second death related to COVID-19 — a man in his 50s who died in Oakville. And why is that important? And why is social distancing so critical? Because — officials say it may be a community spread case. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer […]
GRAVENHURST — Drivers and pedestrians are reminded that the intersection of Bethune Drive and Brock Street will be closed Monday, March 23, for CN Rail repairs. Work will be taking place on the safety traffic arms. Anyone wishing to cross Bethune are advised to use either Phillip Street to the south or Winewood Avenue to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — A public drive-through assessment clinic to test for COVID-19 opened here this morning. At 11 a.m. a centre located in the Kiwanis building on Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital’s campus started screening visitors. Everyone — including walk-ins — will be screened, and those who meet all criteria will be swabbed. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville woman and man from Mississauga will be bail court Thursday morning after a loaded handgun, drugs and cash were seized in a police stop here early this afternoon. Provincial police say that on Wednesday, March 18, the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit conducted an investigation that resulted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Orillia’s CAO is under fire for being on the job Monday a day after flying home from the Cayman Islands and on the same day a man in his 60s went into Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital with confirmed case of the cornavirus. Social media is full of criticism after Gayle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — From Barrie to Orillia — the coronavirus is spreading north as Ontario sees a surge in COVID-19 daily. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) said Wednesday that it is “following up with known contacts of its fifth confirmed case of COVID-19.” They said March 18 that a man […]