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      Canada launched the COVID Alert app on July 31, 2020. Using Bluetooth signals available through smartphones, it alerted users to COVID-19 exposure, offered advice on what to do following exposure, and let others know when you tested positive without sharing personal information.

      On November 23rd the Ontario government announced people from Grey lockdown zones would no longer be able to come to Lindsay or any area out of their zone for a drivers test. The move came after numerous complaints from residents about the dangers of people from Coronavirus hotspots leaving their …

      The Bobcaygeon Chest Fund donated almost $20,000 to the Bobcaygeon Legion so they can build an outdoor patio to help keep vets safe during COVID.

 VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 13 Nov 2020     Two Fenelon Falls businesses partnered to create a unique, pandemic safe shopping experience, allowing up to eight people in the same social bubble for 45 minutes.

      The local health unit was moved to "Yellow-Protect" effective December 7, 2020. The health unit provides reports from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 333, including 202 in Kawartha Lakes, 104 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (net increase of 2, including 3 in Northumberland) *Active cases: 31, including …

      In mid-April 2020, Dean Michel issued a challenge to his local community: raise $500 for Coboconk and Area Food Bank and he would jump in Balsam Lake on May 2, 2020. When the goal was surpassed, he included Jennifer Bacon into the challenge and the goal was upped to $1000. …

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 6 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 260, including 187 in Kawartha Lakes, 51 in Northumberland, 22 in Haliburton (increase of 3, 2 in Kawartha Lakes, 1 in Northumberland) Active cases: 6, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes, 2 in Northumberland and 3 in Haliburton (net increase of 1) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: …

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 5 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 257, including 185 in Kawartha Lakes, 50 in Northumberland, 22in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Active cases: 5, including 2 in Northumberland and 3 in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: 14, including 6 in Kawartha Lakes, 5 in Northumberland, …

 Boyd, Alex, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 3 Nov 2020     The elderly, the high risk, health-care and essential workers should be first in line when an initial COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, says a national advisory body tasked with giving immunization advice in Canada.

 Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 4 Nov 2020     Fenelon Falls students scare up support for local food bank, dropping slips in local mailboxes asking for food donations on Halloween.

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 4 Nov 2020     Mustard explained that the task force met 13 times looking at three key areas to assist economy recovery post-pandemic.

 Taylor, Jeannine, kawarthaNOW.com ( Jeannine Taylor), 4 Nov 2020     Confirmed positive: 256, including 185 in Kawartha Lakes, 50 in Northumberland, 20 in Haliburton (increase of 1, in Haliburton) Active cases: 4, including 2 in Northumberland and 2 in Haliburton (decrease of 1 in Northumberland, increase of 1 in Haliburton) Probable cases: 0 (no change) High-risk contacts: 14, including 4 …

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 20201104     Mike Perry and Dennis Geelan believe that Kawartha Lakes should be looking at new and innovative ways to build back in the post-pandemic economy in Central Ontario and shared a vision with council at the committee of the whole meeting on Nov. 3

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 22 May 2020     The Mayor reported that grocery sales were down 40 per cent over a typical long weekend in the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic and warned residents that unless local businesses were used, the city would lose them. With many businesses, restaurants and bars closed, there were fewer less choices …

 Lindsay Advocate, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), June 2020     Local career services VCCS Employment Services adapted how it delivered its programs and services in Kawartha Lakes with one-on-one employment counselling to clients and employers by phone, email, text, and web meetings; free online sessions for job-seekers; a full board of job postings; and offering screening, recruitment and virtual job …

 Wisniewski, Dominik, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Jul 2020     The health unit reduced the number of COVID-19 reports they released to three days a week. The change in frequency of reporting in Kawartha Lakes freed up resources to prepare for a possible second pandemic wave.

 Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Jul 2020     Bashford assisted a government home-care company recruit caregivers and develop best practices amid COVID-19.

 Appia, Veronica, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Jul 2020     Many parents expressed disappointment with Ontario's guide for reopening schools as they considered sending their children back in September 2020.

      As the city updated service levels in Stage 3 of provincial reopenings, Parks, Recreation and Culture re-opened several facilities.

 Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 31 Jul 2020     Following closely on the heels of the provincial announcement that local public school buildings were able to re-open on Sept. 8, 2020, the school board tried to assess how many children would actually return in the fall. Parents were asked to re-register their children for in-person and at-home learning and …