Category: Grey/Bruce
COVID: no new deaths reported Friday, vaccine clinics to target areas with low coverage
No new COVID-19 related deaths were reported in Grey-Bruce Friday. Six deaths have been reported in the past week, including three on Wednesday. Ten residents with COVID-19 are being treated at a local hospital while four are being treated at hospitals outside of the region. The Grey Bruce Health Unit clarified in its daily situation […]
COVID: local COVID-19 death toll reaches 30
For the second day in a row, another COVID-related death has been reported in Grey-Bruce. Dr. Ian Arra, Grey-Bruce’s medical officer of health, confirmed in a text message Tuesday the latest person to die was neither a long-term care resident nor hospitalized. Arra has previously declined to declare vaccination statuses of the deceased citing privacy. […]
COVID: teachers concerned about virus spread, hospitals over capacity
Teachers in Grey-Bruce are concerned with low vaccination rates among students and the lack of high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters as they return to classrooms this week. Julie Stanley, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Bluewater Local said with 59 per cent of children ages five to 11 unvaccinated, and only 37 per […]
COVID: ineligible residents will not be tested at assessment centres, health unit says
Eleven facilities have active COVID-19 outbreaks in Grey-Bruce, according to the health unit’s latest situation report. On Thursday, the affected locations were Maple Court Villa retirement home in Walkerton, Lee Manor in Owen Sound, Grey Gables in Markdale, and Rockwood Terrace in Durham – as well as Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow, Errinrung in Thornbury, McVean […]
Staff, students and parents asked to screen to minimize COVID-19 spread in schools
Students, staff and parents are being asked to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 through self-screening and self-imposed isolation protocols in the absence of public health interventions when they return to school Monday. “I think it’s going to be a change. I think it’s going to take time for families to adjust to that, but […]
COVID: health unit confirms 53 new cases, five outbreaks in region
The Grey Bruce Health Unit confirmed 53 more COVID-19 cases Friday, although with testing restricted to certain groups the data does not deliver an accurate account of regional case spread. The health unit said it will soon modify its daily situation reports because of the shift in testing protocols and case management. Individuals with symptoms […]
COVID: health unit confirms 53 new cases, five outbreaks in region
The Grey Bruce Health Unit confirmed 53 more COVID-19 cases Friday, although with testing restricted to certain groups the data does not deliver an accurate account of regional case spread. The health unit said it will soon modify its daily situation reports because of the shift in testing protocols and case management. Individuals with symptoms […]
COVID: local reports to change as COVID testing shifts in region
The Grey Bruce Health Unit will soon modify its daily situation report as a result of shifting testing and case management protocols, it announced Thursday. Thursday’s daily situation report was No. 660 of the pandemic and listed 132 new COVID-19 cases in the region. However, because of the rapidly spreading omicron variant, the Grey Bruce […]
GBHU reserves Pfizer for those under 30
The Grey Bruce Health Unit announced that due to provincial supply it will be operating with a limited supply of Pfizer in the coming weeks.