Tag: Owen Sound
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. […]
Cruiser rear-ended, Owen Sound man charged
A 53-year-old Owen Sound man was charged with impaired driving and drug offences after an SUV crashed into a parked police cruiser south of Goderich on Dec. 23. Just after 12:30 p.m. the cruiser, parked on the shoulder of Bluewater Veteran’s Highway with emergency lights flashing, behind a vehicle with a flat tire, was struck […]
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 […]