Northwestern Health Unit has received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the Kenora area, Wednesday, October 21.
Follow up with the person involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for this case will be contacted directly.
A cancer diagnosis, or news of a missing loved one, both mark the start of long journeys.
James Eastman is hoping to tackle both of these problems with a long journey of his own, and he's hoping others will join him.
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TORONTO - Ontario is reporting 790 new cases of COVID-19 today, and nine new deaths due to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 321 of the new cases are in Toronto, 157 are in Peel Region, 76 are in York Region and 57 are in Ottawa.
The province says it has conducted 32,646 tests since the last daily report, with another 29,332 being processed.
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Yolanda Wanakamik as the Director of Indigenous Affairs.
The Town of Fort Frances is finding itself above a number of national and provincial averages, and work is being done to bring some of those numbers down.
According to the Northwestern Health Unit, babies who were born from March to July this year may have missed their routine newborn hearing screen. Due to COVID-19, infant hearing screens that normally occurred in hospitals before discharge were halted. Services resumed in July and any new babies will receive their infant hearing screen as usual.
Northwestern Health Unit has received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the Rainy River region. Follow up with the person involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for this case will be contacted directly.
The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) announced one new positive COVID-19 case in the Dryden/Red Lake region.
Currently there are five active cases, two in the Dryden/Red Lake area, one in Kenora and two in Sioux Lookout.
On Tuesday, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath held a virtual media conference via Zoom and promised to improve long-term care homes in northwestern Ontario.
With the provincial elections coming up, one of Horwath’s promises to the province’s 630 long-term care homes is expanding the public system and ending for-profit long-term care in Ontario.
