It s been 20 months since Barrie health officials sent an application for a consumption and treatment services (CTS) site in Barrie to Ontario s Ministry of Health. Twenty months later, they re still waiting for an answer.
Last Updated Friday, January 29, 2021 4:01PM EST Officials in Simcoe County have confirmed three additional cases of the UK B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, with more than 100 other suspected cases, as a tragic outbreak at a Barrie long-term care home where it was first detected continues to claim lives. Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Colin Lee said that three more variant cases were confirmed, bringing the total in the region to 10. The variant was originally suspected at Roberta Place long-term care home in early January, after a worker who had close contact with someone who travelled abroad became sick.
A worker who had close contact with someone who travelled abroad was one of the first to be suspected of carrying a highly contagious coronavirus variant into Barrie’s Roberta Place long-term care home, health officials said Thursday.