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Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 30 Sep 2020     The local health unit urged everyone to continue to follow pandemic guidelines such as masking and physical distancing, and also to get their free flu shot as the second wave of COVID-19 officially arrived.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 27 Dec 2020     For Leadbeater and her COVID case and contact management team with the local unit, making calls informing people they are COVID positive came with highs and lows. Some felt sad, guilty or angry. Most were simply relieved.

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 this was the case. Efforts to reduce COVID-19 and control exposure (such as regular hand washing, social distancing, wearing masks, ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 3 Dec 2020     A recent surge in positive COVID-19 cases and outbreaks was expected to lead the province to move the local health unit to the 'Yellow' protect level. This meant enhanced targeted enforcement, fines, and enhanced education to limit transmission. Increased restrictions meant fewer customers in bars and restaurants, reduced operating hours ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 23 Nov 2020     The local health unit continued to hit bumps in the road when it came to distributing influenza vaccines to area health care providers. Requests for a higher dose vaccines could not be filled as the health unit had none available and awaited word from the province. Pharmacies, running short with ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 25 Nov 2020     Discussions regarding the delivery of a vaccine began in Kawartha Lakes as the province announced on November 23, 2020 the creation of a distribution task force and news that a vaccine may be ready for use in 2021.

Diamond, Matt, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 8 Jan 2021     Reader Matt Diamond blasted the Kawartha Lakes health unit for lack of information provided about recent deaths in the region in a letter to the editor.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 8 Jan 2021     The local health unit said immunization for the general public could be done quickly, but was not likely to happen until summer 2021.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 22 Jan 2021     Businesses were urged to continue to maintain the regulations imposed by the province in order to reduce and contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 2 Feb 2021     With thousands of students returning to schools across the GTA, the province expanded access to targeted asymptomatic testing, but local health officials said it's unlikely such efforts would be necessary here.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 5 Feb 2021     One Caressant Care home in Lindsay edged closer to moving out of outbreak while the other remained deep in the heat of its COVID-19 crisis.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 25 Sep 2020     The Pie Eyed Monk in Lindsay voluntarily closed it's doors for a couple of weeks so that all staff can get tested after one employee tested positve for COVID-19.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 24 Sep 2020     Fewer people going to the doctor or hospital for influenza frees up needed resources in the fight against the pandemic

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 20 Jan 2021     The Kawartha Lakes health unit has a plan; all that's missing is the COVID-19 vaccine.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 21 Jan 2021     Despite hundreds of new COVID-19 cases still being reported across the province daily, the local health unit believed that one of the best places for children just might have been back in school.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 3 Feb 2021     Caressant Care McLaughlin Road Nursing Home continued to work to address its COVID-19 outbreak while grieving the loss of five more residents since January 29.

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.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 25 Nov 2020     New COVID-19 rapid tests were already delivered to two Ontario hospitals with 20 more preparing to launch in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, health officials in Kawartha Lakes didn't expect to see them until the end of the year.

Sobanski, Sarah, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 3 Dec 2020     The financial strain of COVID-19 contributed to what could be a 4% tax levy increase in Kawartha Lakes.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 28 Jan 2021     The Caressant Care McLaughlin Road Nursing Home in Lindsay started to see the light at the end of the outbreak tunnel as no new cases or additional deaths were reported. There remained a total of 9 active resident cases and 16 active staff cases. The Mary Street retirement home outbreak ...