Tag: Mask
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Masks optional now at Grey Bruce Health Services, with exceptions
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Masks are now mostly optional in Grey Bruce Health Services sites. They remain mandatory in emergency departments, for people visiting patient rooms and anywhere in the hospital for people who have COVID-19 symptoms. The new policy reflects updated recommendations from Public Health Ontario regarding the COVID-19 virus and hospital practice in the province, a GBHS…
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Man who confronted maskless teens in store gets conditional discharge
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A Saugeen Shores man pleaded guilty to mischief and uttering a threat to cause bodily harm from when he confronted two maskless teens in a store more than a year ago when pandemic restrictions required masks. Pier Donnini, 57, entered his pleas Monday on what was to be the first day of a three-day trial…
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St. Joseph’s London switching to biodegradable masks
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The change makes St. Joseph’s Health Care London the first hospital in the province to use a green alternative mask.
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GBHS admitting more kids to hospital with respiratory viruses
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Grey Bruce Health Services is seeing more sick kids in its emergency rooms than normal due to respiratory viruses, as is happening across the province. Kids’ visits to GBHS emergency rooms are up by 20 or 30 per cent, said Gary Sims, the president and CEO of GBHS. He blamed COVID-19, an early rise in…
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Port Elgin teens in maskless threat case speak out
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The teens at the centre of a police investigation into allegations someone with a bat threatened them for not wearing masks in a Saugeen Shores grocery store earlier this year have offered their side of the story. According to court documents, police charged Piergiorgio Donnini, 56, of Saugeen Shores, with committing mischief Jan. 6 for breaking a…