Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Ontario high schools will shift back to regular semesters no later than February, returning secondary students to a normal schedule for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. School boards will be able to make the change sooner if they have their local public health unit’s support, Education […]
TORONTO – Children aged five to 11 in Ontario will be eligible to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting Tuesday. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province is set to receive a little over 400,000 vaccine doses from the federal government on Monday, followed by another shipment of a little over […]
TORONTO – The Toronto District School Board is granting temporary exemptions for roughly 290 unvaccinated staff who otherwise would be placed on administrative leave until it can find temporary staff to fill the positions. In a memo sent to families, the school board says it continues to implement its COVID-19 […]
The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for children has arrived in Canada. A UPS plane touched down in Hamilton at around 5:15 p.m. carrying thousands of pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Health Canada approved the modified shot for use in kids aged five to 11 on Friday, and the […]
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Monday that the rapid rise in coronavirus cases means it’s likely everyone in the country who isn’t vaccinated will have caught COVID-19 by the end of the winter – and some of those will die. Official figures Monday showed more than 30,000 newly […]
Ontario is reporting 711 new COVID-19 cases and five more deaths from the virus today. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 397 of the infected people are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says 314 of the cases are in fully vaccinated people. It’s the highest number […]
WASHINGTON – Canada and Mexico will redistribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses they received from the United States to other Western Hemisphere countries as a part of today’s revived Three Amigos leaders’ summit. Senior U.S. government officials outlined the measure in advance of today’s meeting that President Joe Biden is […]
AMSTERDAM (AP) – The European Union’s medicines authority said Thursday that it is evaluating a new drug for treating COVID-19 patients who do not require extra oxygen but are at increased risk of developing severe symptoms of the disease. Xevudy, developed by U.S. company Vir Biotechnology Inc. and Britain-based GlaxoSmithKline, […]
The Southwestern Public Health unit in Ontario is considering adopting new public health measures to mitigate the rise in COVID-19 case counts. The medical officer of health for the counties of Oxford and Elgin says the daily counts of COVID-19 new infections in the area have been higher than those […]
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Fewer than a dozen nursing homes needed staffing help from the Ontario government on Monday as the deadline for workers to get a first COVID-19 vaccine dose came due, according to the minister of long-term care. “We are working closely with any facilities that have been in […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 481 COVID-19 cases and one new death from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 292 of the new cases are in people not fully vaccinated or with unknown vaccination status, and 189 of the infected people are fully vaccinated. There were 139 patients in […]
Employees have been given until December 13 for full vaccination Ontario long-term care staff must have received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose to go to work today. Staff who don’t present proof of a first dose must instead show a medical exemption to be able to enter a long-term care […]
