{"id":95696,"date":"2021-03-19T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=95696"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:47:29","slug":"huntsvilles-covid-cases-reach-20-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsvilles-covid-cases-reach-20-for-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville&#8217;s COVID cases reach 20 for March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reported two new COVID-19 cases in Huntsville, bringing this month&#8217;s total to 20 cases, the highest monthly total since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>The new cases, both of which are under investigation, are a male aged 65-79 and a female aged 45-64.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Within Muskoka there have been 31 cases identified as variants of concern as of March 19\u2014two confirmed as the UK B.1.1.7 and the rest having screened positive for a VOC. (Variant testing is a two-step process with the screening occurring first, followed by whole genome sequencing upon positive screening results. Delays in reporting of up to 10 days are possible for the initial screening, while WGS can take between three and six weeks depending on volume and laboratory capacity, according to the health unit.)<\/p>\n<p>Simcoe Muskoka has the highest number of variants of concern in Ontario. Most of the VOC cases in Simcoe Muskoka have been in Simcoe County. To date 260 cases have tested positive for the COVID-19 variant of concern UK B.1.1.7 (UK), seven cases have tested positive for the P.1 variant of concern (Brazil), one case has tested positive for the B.1.351 variant of concern (South Africa), and an additional 618 cases have screened positive for a VOC and are awaiting confirmatory testing.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 89 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Huntsville to date, five are active. None are currently in hospital in Huntsville. Two people have died from the disease in Huntsville, as well as a third person in Muskoka Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 46 COVID-19 cases in Huntsville since Jan. 1. In Lake of Bays, there have been seven cases in total, all of which are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a total of 257 cases reported in Muskoka to date (12 of them currently active) and 6,912 in Simcoe County (446 active). (For a full list of Huntsville and Lake of Bays cases to date, and other COVID-19 updates for the area, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/covid-19-in-huntsville-the-latest-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>For more COVID-19 information from the health unit, visit <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simcoemuskokahealth.org\/Topics\/COVID-19\/Stop-the-spread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">simcoemuskokahealth.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox three times per week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) reported two new COVID-19 cases in Huntsville, bringing this month&#8217;s total to 20 cases, the highest monthly total since the pandemic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":86641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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