COVID-19: The Kawartha Lakes Pandemic Time Capsule

Gilligan, Keith, Ajax News (Ajax), 31 Dec 2020     Ontario's finance minister resigned from his position after a December 2020 holiday trip to St. Barts in the Caribbean as the rest of the province was told to stay home, make no non-essential trips,

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 31 Dec 2020     The Ontario Provincial Police restricted access to its facilities, including detachments, across the province due to the Winter 2020 provincial lockdown.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 31 Dec 2020     Some local teachers have just today (December 31, 2020) received information from the province around the online learning protocols set to begin on Monday (January 4, 2021.)

MacEachern, Barbara-Ann, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 1 Jan 2021     The local newspaper took a look at the roller coaster ride of 2020 for the Kawartha Lakes real estate market, with its historic highs and lows and asked what was next for 2021.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 2 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays.These numbers are for a two-day period (January 1 and 2). Confirmed positive: 554, including 264 in Kawartha Lak

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 2 Jan 2021     Ross Memorial Hospital said it had two patients admitted with Coronavirus and one on a ventilator. Officials at the hospital said both are from the community and were not transferred from another are

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 2 Jan 2021     The local newspaper spoke with Director of Education Wesley Hahn from the local public school board about the five biggest challenges and benefits that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic from their pe

MacEachern, Barbara-Ann, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 3 Jan 2021     Following an unprecedented year that left many local workers asking "what next", the local newspaper looked at what could be expected for the Kawartha Lakes employment market in 2021.

Ferguson, Rob, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 4 Jan 2021     Ontario's commission into the increasingly deadly toll of COVID-19 in nursing homes went public with its frustration at Premier Doug Ford's government for failing to provide requested documents on me

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 4 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. These numbers are for the two-day period January 3 and January 4. Confirmed positive: 572, including 264 in Kaw

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 13 Jan 2021     Area school boards saw more than 500 students return to in-class studies after the 2020 holiday break while the province extended online learning orders until at least January 25, 2021.

    The City of Kawartha Lakes issued a press release outlining those city services affected by the province's second lockdown in January 2021. Services affected included closing all municipal buildings

Hyatt, Sarah, Northumberland News (Cobourg, ON), 13 Jan 2021     Medical officer of Public Health Dr. Ian Gemmill talked vaccine rollout, LTC priorities in Phase 1 and Phase 2 starting in the spring and summer depending on vaccine availability. The health unit hop

Benns, Roderick, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 14 Jan 2021     The reconstruction of the second section of Kent Street West in downtown Lindsay from Cambridge Street to Victoria Street, originally scheduled for Fall 2021, was started early in January due to the

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 14 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 682, including 328 in Kawartha Lakes, 315 in Northumberland, and39 in Haliburton (increase

Hyatt, Sarah, Northumberland News (Cobourg, ON), 14 Jan 2021     Possible future changes with respect to COVID-19 data reporting at the local level was anticipated after the local health unit sent a request forward to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of On

Lindsay Advocate, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 14 Jan 2021     Kawartha Lakes Police Chief Mark Mitchell asked that the public comply with the province's stay-at-home order as much as possible due to the ongoing pandemic, but assured people that the police will

    The city appealed to the public to abide by the rules of the stay-at-home order to stop the spread of COVID-19, which would continue unchecked according to newly released modelling otherwise.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 15 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 691, including 328 in Kawartha Lakes, 324 in Northumberland, and 39 in Haliburton (increase

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 15 Jan 2021     As the number of COVID-19 cases continue is accumulate, influenza or the flu seemed oddly absent. Marianne Rock (the local health unit) and Patti Fitzgerald (Peterborough Public Health) explained why