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      Tsang, Health Equity Coordinator, Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Pine Ridge District Health Unit, wondered about the type of world we might want to live in post-pandemic.

      Practical Nursing Graduate Mackenzie Lotton shared her experience of the Fleming College program and working alongside her mother at Ross Memorial Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

      The city reopened fitness classes at the Lindsay Recreation Complex on August 10, 2020, with strict participant limits and specific COVID-19 fitness rules. These rules included maintaining physical distancing from others, no access to change rooms or lockers, following directional signage, removing outdoor footwear, and wearing a mask when anywhere …

      Sitting in a jail cell at Central East Correctional Centre feels like waiting around for an inevitable fate of getting COVID-19, says one inmate.

      The health unit provides reports from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays. Confirmed positive: 331, including 203 in Kawartha Lakes, 101 in Northumberland, 27 in Haliburton (increase of 4, including 1 in Kawartha Lakes and 3 in Northumberland) Active cases: 37, including 8 in Kawartha Lakes, 28 in Northumberland, and …

      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 …

      A roundup of the research that acknowledged that the transmission of COVID-19 was possible via aerosolized respiratory microdroplets that could travel farther than the 2 metres/6 foot separation of social distancing.

      Five creative solutions and new ways of working together emerged as a result of the unique situations health care providers and social agencies were faced with during COVID-19.

      Kawartha Lakes Culture and Heritage Network (CAHN) is a collaborative voice that advocates for the heritage and culture sectors in the City of Kawartha Lakes to provide opportunities for communication, education, outreach, and coordination of resources and efforts, to the Networks members and the community at large in the City …

      A list of the health unit regions that were and were not allowed to move to Stage Two of re-openings on June 12, 2020.

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

      The local district health unit announced that the outbreaks declared at Kawartha Lakes Retirement Residence (Bobcaygeon) and at Empire Crossing Retirement Home (Port Hope) were over. Outbreaks were declared at these two residences on May 12, 2020, and May 16, 2020 respectively.

      The online information session is designed to provide parents with information about the vaccine, how to prepare children for vaccination, potential side effects of the vaccine, and the ways to book a vaccination appointment.

      Anyone born in 2016 or earlier is now eligible to get vaccinated for a first or second dose of the vaccine.

      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.

      Ross Memorial Hospital implemented additional safety measures to protect patients, visitors and staff. Measures included visitors limited to 1 designated visitor and only one, medical-grade masks provided to all patients and visitors after screening, continuation of care programs and surgeries, and a reminder not to wait to visit the Emergency …

      The Ontario government says it is preparing to move into Phase Two of its COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan in April and will focus on vaccinating populations based on age and risk

      With Ontario reporting 1,316 new cases today, the provincial government announced plans to distribute 194,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ontarians aged 60-64. The vast majority of the doses will be supplied to 325 pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington for appointment-based vaccinations

      On the same day Ontario declared its third state of emergency and a month-long stay-at-home order, the province is reporting 3,215 new COVID-19 cases, with the seven-day average of daily cases increasing by 126 to 2,988. There are 126 more confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 UK variant, 1 more case …