Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Friday afternoon, Oct. 16, that given an alarming increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, York Region, home to more than a million residents, would be rolled back to a “modified” Phase 2 status, forcing some businesses to close. He said the region would remain in the partial lockdown for…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting tracking 13 ongoing confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its region, including one new case each in West Elgin and Woodstock and area, on Friday, Oct. 16. The number of cases in St. Thomas and area dropped to one from two. Other communities remained unchanged from Thursday, including Aylmer and area…
St. Thomas Police are asking the public’s help to find Trystin Mulhern, 13, who was reported missing on Friday morning, Oct. 16. He was last seen Wednesday around 9 a.m., and spoken to by telephone around 2 p.m. that day. He has ties to the London area. Anyone seeing Trystin is asked to contact St.…
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases being tracked by Southwestern Public Health doubled overnight from six to 12 on Thursday, Oct. 15, including a new one in Aylmer and area. St. Thomas and area continues to have two cases, while Tillsonburg and area increased to four from one. Ingersoll and area still have two cases…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting a new confirmed case of COVID-19 in Tillsonburg on Wednesday, Oct. 14. St. Thomas and area has two cases, Ingersoll two and East Zorra-Tavistock one. Across Ontario, 721 new confirmed cases were reported, most in in the pandemic “hot spots”, Toronto, Ottawa and Peel.
Thames Valley District School Board trustees will learn at their meeting Tuesday night, Oct. 13, that the Ontario government has approved capital funding for a new elementary school in Belmont. A report from Associate Director Jeff Pratt said the Belmont school was the only TVDSB “capital priority” approved by the province. TVDSB had also asked…
Thames Valley District School Board reported its third confirmed case of COVID-19 at an elementary school in two days on Tuesday, Oct. 13, this time at Northdale Central Public School in Dorchester. The school will remain open and buses will continue to operate. Middlesex-London Health Unit is investigating the new case, identifying the infected person’s…
Hard on the heels of the Thames Valley District School Board confirming a second case at a London elementary school, it’s now reporting a COVID-19 infection at Mary Wright Public School in Strathroy. The board on Monday afternoon, Oct. 12, stated the school would remain open, and continue to be served by school buses. Middlesex-London…
Thames Valley District School Board announced a second positive case of COVID-19 has been identified at Sir Arthur Currie Public School in London by the Middlesex-London Health Unit on Monday, Oct. 12. The second case of COVID-19 was linked to the first case and as a result the health unit has declared an outbreak in order…
Southwestern Public Health confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 in Oxford County on Monday, Oct. 12, two in Ingersoll and one in East Zorra-Tavistock. St. Thomas and area has one ongoing case, as does Central Elgin.
Southwestern Public Health was reporting a new confirmed case of COVID-19 in St. Thomas and area on Sunday, Oct. 11. The only other ongoing case in the Southwestern region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford is in Central Elgin. On the same day, 649 new cases were being reported across Ontario.
Southwestern Public Health was reporting one ongoing confirmed case of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, Oct. 9, that being a recently-diagnosed one in Central Elgin. Ontario reported a record-high 939 new cases for the day on Oct. 9.