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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…

Southwestern Public Health on Tuesday, April 20, announced the death of a St. Thomas man in his 70s, connected to COVID-19. His is the 73rd such death since the pandemic started in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. The health unit reported 12 new confirmed cases on Tuesday. The total number of ongoing cases in the…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Friday, April 16, that police would be given greater power to stop and question anyone about potential violations of the COVID-19 “stay-at-home” order to combat the third wave of the virus’s spread. Anyone refusing to say why they’re out and where they reside could face a $750 ticket. The stay-at-home…

Dr. Joyce Lock, medical officer of health for Southwestern Public Health, revealed on Wednesday, April 14, that a COVID-19 immunization clinic would soon be announced for Tillsonburg. During a weekly news briefing, she explained that an existing mass immunization clinic in St. Thomas could handle up to 800 patients a day, but one in Woodstock…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting 32 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Tuesday, April 13. The health unit also recorded its 71st death linked to the virus, a Woodstock woman in her 60s. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit rose to 177 Tuesday from…

Thames Valley District School board announced Monday, April 12, that at the instruction of the Ontario government, in-person learning would not resume across the province after the spring break this week. All elementary and secondary students who had attended classes at schools would shift to full remote learning Monday, April 19, the board stated. No…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting 65 new cases from the weekend, or an average of over 30 a day, on Monday, April 12, compared to 24 new cases on Friday, April 9. Southwestern also announced the death of a St. Thomas man in his 50s in a case linked to COVID-19. The health unit is…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting 24 confirmed new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, April 9, up from 16 the previous day, and across Ontario, 4,227 new cases were confirmed, up from 3,295 Thursday. In Aylmer and area, the number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit jumped to 19 Friday from 11 Thursday.…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, citing increasing admissions to hospitals and intensive care units as a result of COVID-19 variants that were “worse than the worst-case scenarios” previously predicted, declared a new state of emergency for the province and issued a four-week “stay-at-home” order on Wednesday, April 7. Grocery stores and pharmacies will be allowed to…

Southwestern Public Health reported 63 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from the Easter long weekend on Monday morning, April 5. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit increased to 115 Monday from 90 last Thursday. St. Thomas and area increased to 23 cases Monday from 20 last Thursday, Aylmer and area…