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 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 8 Feb 2021     The first doses of the Moderna vaccine will be administered on Tuesday, February 9th to all residents of Caressant Care, McLaughlin Road who have signed consent forms and have never tested positive for the virus according to officials.

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 10 Feb 2021     Eight people are facing a fine of $880 under the Reopening Ontario Act after three police investigations in Lindsay. Changes were laid February 5 2021, February 6 2021, and February 9 2021.

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 10 Feb 2021     At least three employees at the Food Basics grocery store location in Lindsay had tested positive for coronavirus. According to the parent company Metro, they were notified that one employee tested positive on February 4, 2021 and was last in the store on January 31, 2021. The second employee tested …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 9 Feb 2021     S-Staff and residents at Kawartha Lakes Victoria Manor Long Term Care (LTC) facility in Lindsay were extremely happy to receive their first round of covid-19 vaccines over this past weekend.

 411 Staff, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 10 Feb 2021     According to the ministry there is now seven active inmate cases of Coronavirus at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay as well as one staff case.

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 13 Oct 2021     The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit issued the $880 fine last week.

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 13 Apr 2021     A coronavirus outbreak was declared on April 11, 2021 at Fenelon Court Long Term Care Home in Fenelon Falls.

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 23 May 2021     An outbreak was declared at the facility on May 17th and the numbers have quickly grown. The cases have doubled in less than a week. On May 20th there were 21 cases reported.

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 25 May 2021     The number of local active COVID-19 cases in Kawartha Lakes increased dramatically after the confirmation of additional cases of COVID-19 within the CentralEast Correctional Centre (CECC). As of May 25, 2021, 122 inmates and nine staff had tested positive in relation to the outbreak declared on May 17, 2021. Testing …

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 26 May 2021     Our local coronavirus vaccination rate is in line with the provincial average, despite having been allocated the lowest number of vaccines per capita in Ontario. Dr. Natalie Bocking expects that the supply will increase in June.

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 28 May 2021     The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit declared a Coronavirus Outbreak at Medi-Share Labs and Diagnostic Cardiology Services in Lindsay today.

 Vanmeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 28 May 2021     Ontario has reached a key milestone in its fight against COVID-19, having achieved its target to administer first doses of vaccine to 65 per cent of Ontarians aged 18 and over ahead of schedule, according to the province. With that news the province says the State of Emergency and the …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 21 Dec 2020     Part of the Ontario Government's decision to implement a province-wide lockdown from December 26, 2020 to January 23, 2021 in Southern Ontario was the need to keep enough beds open in hospitals to care for COVID patients. In April 2020, the provincial government had announced that it added more acute …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 18 Dec 2020     The local health unit said the COVID-19 vaccine would not be available in the area until 2021 as the limited 2020 supply was being first distributed to high-risk groups first. Priority was given to those in the Red-Control and Grey-Lockdown zones, focusing on health care workers and the most vulnerable …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 4 Dec 2020     Kawartha Lakes moved into the Yellow zone on December 7, 2020. With the move into the Yellow-Control level, some of the key changes include: Restaurants/bars must close at midnight. Alcohol can no longer be sold or served after 11 pm. A limit of six people can be seated at one …

 Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca, 16 Dec 2020     The Bobcaygeon Kinette Club ensured their 53-year tradition of a Christmas dinner for local widows continued by hand delivering hot Christmas meals to 112 widows.

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 17 Dec 2020     Wanting to give their students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 a more global look at how Christmas is celebrated, teachers at the school set up stations to inform them about celebration practices in five countries: Estonia, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, and Norway. One of these stations involved placing candles at the …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 17 Dec 2020     The local public school board recommended that all students gather personal belongings from lockers and desks and bring them home for the Christmas holiday in case Ministry of Education decided to extend the break and have all schools closed beyond January 4, 2021.

 Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca, 16 Dec 2020     As a result of the pandemic, 50 homeless people were displaced from the local Lindsay homeless shelter. The shelter "A Place Called Home" (APCH) operated a 19 bed shelter, but was closed when the shelter officials decided that the shelter was not pandemic ready. Residents were moved to a local …

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 9 Dec 2020     The local health unit declared an outbreak at the Extendicare Lindsay long-term care home.