Queen’s Park issues stay-at-home order, effective Thursday, restricting non-essential travel in the province All employees not essential to in-person workplace operation must work from home Read More > Facebook Twitter 12.01.2021
Local health unit to begin bringing vaccines into LTC homes following successful pilot that inoculated 178 residents in Barrie and Orillia Until now, vaccination only occurred at clinic in north Barrie by invitation Read More > Facebook Twitter 12.01.2021
Barrie pandemic response unit well-utilized since November opening Over one hundred patients have passed through Barrie's field hospital since it opened Read More > Facebook Twitter 06.01.2021
COVID control measures cleave influenza rates in Simcoe Muskoka and province-wide Lack of flu cases points to high COVID transmission Read More > Facebook Twitter 06.01.2021
Simcoe Muskoka’s vaccination clinic among the busiest in the province Local medical officer of health says Barrie's clinic is the fourth most productive Read More > Facebook Twitter 05.01.2021
Long-term care worker receives Barrie’s first COVID-19 vaccine "I volunteered," said local LTC worker after receiving Simcoe Muskoka's first shot Read More > Facebook Twitter 22.12.2020
Ontario Hospital Association calling on harder-hit regions, like Simcoe-Muskoka, to face four-week total lockdown Any region seeing more than 40 cases per 100,000 people would be affected, Simcoe Muskoka reporting 44 Read More > Facebook Twitter 17.12.2020
COVID-19 this week: first days within the red zone and active transmission continues Health unit continues to see challenges with contact tracing Read More > Facebook Twitter 15.12.2020
Local health unit working on vaccination details, doses could arrive as early as next week While stored at sub-zero temperatures, the vaccine is room temperature when it goes into your arm Read More > Facebook Twitter 15.12.2020
Simcoe-Muskoka Schools impacted by COVID-19 A case reported within a school does not mean the virus was contracted within Read More > Facebook Twitter 15.12.2020
