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Province announces paid sick leave program
The Ontario government has announced it will reimburse employers up to $200 a day for up to three days of paid sick leave for employees who miss work due to COVID-19. The program will be retroactive to April 19, and continue until Sept. 25, 2021. That’s the same day the federal government’s Canada Recovery Sickness…
Read MoreWorkers in licensed childcare centres can get vaccinated
Southwestern Public Health announced Wednesday afternoon, April 28, that childcare workers 18 and older employed in licensed childcare centres were now eligible to received the COVID-19 vaccine at the health unit’s mass vaccination clinics in St. Thomas, Tillsonburg and Woodstock. Southwestern noted that eligibility was expected to be expanded in the near future by the…
Read MoreOngoing cases still decreasing
Southwestern Public Health reported 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Wednesday, April 28, down from 20 on Tuesday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit also fell, to 141 from 150. St. Thomas and area dropped to 30 ongoing cases Wednesday from 40 Tuesday.…
Read More45 and older in Aylmer and area eligible for vaccinations
Effective immediately, anyone 45 and older residing in the “N5H” postal code is eligible to book at appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination from Southwestern Public Health. That includes all of Aylmer and much of Malahide. Southwestern announced that on Tuesday afternoon, April 27. Proof of age and home address is required in order to to…
Read MoreOngoing Southwestern cases drop
Southwestern Public Health reported 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Tuesday, April 27. The number of ongoing cases is 150, down from 160 on Monday. St. Thomas and area decreased to 40 ongoing cases Tuesday from 44 Monday, Aylmer and area to six from seven and Bayham to…
Read MoreOver weekend, 65 new cases in Southwestern region
Southwestern Public Health on Monday, April 26, announced 65 new cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Elgin, St. Thomas and Woodstock over the weekend, compared to 12 on Friday. Currently, the total number of ongoing cases being tracked in the region is at 160, up slightly from 159 Friday. The health unit also reported…
Read MoreThree charged after service
Three persons from Perth County have been charged in connection with an incident following an in-person service at Aylmer Church of God on Sunday, April 25. In a statement, Aylmer Police said that the service had been monitored by officers starting at 10:30 a.m. in anticipation of breaches of Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic orders. “A large…
Read MoreArrests after Church of God Service
Aylmer Police arrested a man (in red-and-black jacket) after repeatedly telling him he was too close to them, across from Aylmer Church of God on Sunday afternoon, April 25. The man, who wasn’t wearing a face mask and had been inside the church, had been holding a cell phone close to the officers’ faces, demanding…
Read MoreSouthwestern records 76th COVID-linked death
Southwestern Public Health announced on Friday morning, April 23, that a St. Thomas man in his 60s had died as a resulted of COVID-19. This is the 76th fatality since the pandemic started. The health unit also reported 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, down from 26 the…
Read MoreTwo charged at Church of God are Toronto police officers-updated
A North York man, 42, and a Scarborough woman, 41, charged in connection with an alleged breach of pandemic restrictions at Aylmer Church of God on Tuesday night, April 20, identified themselves as Toronto police officers at the time in a video released on Ontario MPP Randy Hillier’s social media post. The video shows an…
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