Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Both schools will remain open, with students in the affected classrooms sent home until deemed safe to return.

Worrying trends raise possibility of quick changes to public health measures, strain shelter capacity, Mayor Bill Mauro reports.

Despite a record number of cases and outbreaks at at least one school, the province will not move the district back into lockdown status. The Northwestern Health Unit will remain in Yellow.

Health Unit announces 40 new cases on Friday

The new vaccination centre located in the Bora Laskin building on the Lakehead University campus will expect to immunize between 500 and 600 people per day by next week.

McKellar Park Central Public School has reported 12 positive COVID-19 cases among students in the last two weeks.

The total number of active cases in the district has climbed to 170.

Hospital occupancy now at 89.9 per cent.

An order for greater enforcement of isolation requirements is now in effect.

City has added 140 new cases over the past seven days and sits at 166 active cases, the third highest total since the pandemic began.