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Wiarton hospital COVID outbreak ends
The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported Saturday that 14 local people are hospitalized due to COVID-19, unchanged from the day before. Ten people are in a local hospital and four are hospitalized outside Grey-Bruce. A COVID outbreak at Wiarton hospital, declared Jan. 20 in the in-patient and complex continuing care unit, ended today. Ontario reported […]
Grey-Bruce likely will see more COVID deaths: Arra
Another death due to COVID-19 reported Thursday by the Grey-Bruce Health Unit brought the total to 34 local deaths during the pandemic. There have been six deaths reported among Grey-Bruce residents in the past week, representing 21 per cent of the total deaths attributed to the pandemic virus. Dr. Ian Arra, the medical officer of […]
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. […]
Wood manufacturers hope foreign workers might help fill jobs
A Hanover-based provincial association of wood manufacturers hopes to persuade the federal government to devise a national, emergency foreign worker program to help solve its labour shortage problems. The industry needs thousands of workers in Ontario alone, Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario CEO Mike Baker said. The organization used to be called Bluewater Wood Alliance. […]
All local COVID patients in ICU not fully vaccinated: health unit
Twelve local people are in a local hospital and two more are hospitalized outside Grey-Bruce due to COVID-19, the health unit reported Friday. Five of them are in a local ICU and two more are in an ICU outside Grey-Bruce, said Dr. Ian Arra, the Grey-Bruce medical officer of health. None of them is fully […]
Two more COVID deaths in Grey-Bruce
Grey-Bruce has lost two more people to COVID-19. The Grey Bruce Health Unit added two deaths to the area’s total Wednesday. Now 27 Grey-Bruce citizens have died due to the pandemic virus There have been 19 deaths in Grey-Bruce, plus one Grey-Bruce citizen died after acquiring the infection and receiving treatment outside of Grey-Bruce, and […]
Concern grows about COVID in local long-term care, retirement homes
With COVID-19 outbreaks now in six long-term care or retirement homes in Grey-Bruce, more stringent isolation and testing requirements are coming into effect in these facilities, the medical officer of health said. Sunday the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported two more outbreaks in these homes than the day before, as well as 60 new cases […]
Grey Bruce Health Unit reports 88 new COVID cases Saturday
Eighty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Grey-Bruce Saturday. There are now 383 active COVID cases, including nine local people in a local hospital and one in hospital outside Grey-Bruce, the Grey Bruce Health Unit reported. Figures were current to midnight Friday. Grey Bruce Health Services’ Owen Sound hospital has a continuing COVID outbreak. […]
COVID: Grey-Bruce adds 80 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday
The Grey Bruce Health Unit reported 80 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. The newest cases in Wednesday’s report – current as of midnight Tuesday – include 13 in Owen Sound, 12 in Saugeen Shores, eight in Kincardine, seven in The Blue Mountains, six in Neyaashiinigmiing, five each in Georgian Bluffs and Southgate, four each in […]
New COVID outbreaks at Owen Sound hospital, Lucknow LTC home
New COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared at Owen Sound hospital and at Pinecrest Manor in Lucknow. The Grey Bruce Health Unit declared both outbreaks Monday. The hospital outbreak is on 6-2, the medicine unit, and involves three patients, with two staff who tested positive but not technically considered part of the outbreak. “Unit 6-2 has […]