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Benns, Roderick, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 12 Jan 2021     Some of the people who find themselves homeless - and at the doors of A Place Called Home in Lindsay - are not wanting to move along quite as fast these days. Given the shortage of available affordable housing, the new place they secure with APCH's help is often just ...

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 12 Jan 2021     The family who was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act with not following Coronavirus gathering rules wants people to know, it could happen to you. Cindy McCabe says her two sisters and one of the sisters boyfriends all ended up at their parents' house in Lindsay at the same time. ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 12 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. These numbers are for a two-day period (January 10 and 11). Confirmed positive: 667, including 320 in Kawartha Lakes, 309 in Northumberland, and 38 in Haliburton (increase of 9 in Northumberland) *Active cases: 74, including 38 in Kawartha ...

    We have received many inquiries regarding the potential for patient transfers to our hospital. As a partner in the provincial healthcare system, Ross Memorial Hospital may be called upon to accept patient transfers from areas where the system is experiencing critically high patient volumes. Patients transferred here may or may ...

Peterborough This Week, Peterborough This Week (Peterborough ON), 11 Jan 2021     Three people were issued fines in Lindsay under the Reopening Ontario Act after police received a complaint on Sunday afternoon.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 11 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. These numbers are for a two-day period (January 10 and 11). Confirmed positive: 660, including 320 in Kawartha Lakes, 301 in Northumberland, and39 in Haliburton (increase of 18, including 6 in Kawartha Lakes, 11 in Northumberland, and 1in ...

Ferguson, Rob, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 11 Jan 2021     A senior government source said that the provincial government was not planning to put curfews in place to curb the stubbornly rapid spread of COVID-19. The question of curfews arose after Quebec implemented one.

Yang, Jennifer, Toronto Star ( TorStar), 10 Jan 2021     Experts said the holiday period accelerated what was already an alarming trajectory before Christmas. According to mobility data shared exclusively with the Toronto Star, some health units that saw dramatic increases in post-holiday infection rates also had amongst the province's highest rates of movement.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 10 Jan 2021     Health unit said delaying return to school for elementary students is necessary given the continued rise in COVID-19 cases locally and across the province.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 9 Jan 2021     The local health unit declared an outbreak of Coronavirus at Fenelon Court Long Term Care Home in Fenelon Falls.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 9 Jan 2021     Lynda Chessman has been overwhelmed by the commitment of area residents when it came to supplying goods for children and seniors.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 9 Jan 2021     The health unit provides reports from Monday to Saturday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 627, including 308 in Kawartha Lakes, 291 in Northumberland, and 37 in Haliburton (increase of 8, including 5 in Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland) *Active cases: 80, including 39 in Kawartha Lakes, 35 in Northumberland, ...

    Ontario was on the verge of running out of COVID-19 vaccine doses if no new shipments arrived before the end of the following week (January 15, 2021), Premier Doug Ford said during an announcement on Friday January 8, 2021.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 8 Jan 2021     Trillium Lakelands OSSTF's Colin Matthew strongly objected to the school board sharing a letter in which Minister Stephen Lecce claimed all educators received mandatory training for online teaching.

Benns, Roderick, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 8 Jan 2021     With the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continuing to rise throughout the province, the local acting medical officer of health urged area residents to do everything they could to stop the spread of the virus.

Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 8 Jan 2021     Many working parents and caregivers are feeling pressure and anxiety after the government announced at home learning has been extended until January 25.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 8 Jan 2021     According to data obtained from Public Health Ontario, 2020 could be the deadliest year yet for Opioid overdoses and deaths locally. For the first eight months of 2020 there were 25 confirmed or probable deaths from Opioid overdoses in the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge (HKPR) District Health Unit catchment area.That’s ...

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 15 Jun 2020     The federal government announced that it would be extending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) for Canadians unable to return to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor, 1996), 15 Jun 2020     Confirmed positive: 184, including 158 in Kawartha Lakes, 18 in Northumberland, 8 in Haliburton (no change) Probable cases: 0 (no change) Hospitalizations: 13 (no change) Deaths: 32 (no change) Resolved: 157 (increase of 1) Institutional outbreaks: Fenelon Court Long Term Care Home in Fenelon Falls (confirmed), Pinecrest Nursing Home in ...

    The CKL Community Pandemic Recovery Task Force met on June 15, 2020 to continue working on developing recommendations for the City to support community recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.