EASTERN ONTARIO — This region’s incoming mandatory mask-wearing rule is set to be explained in detail during a 2:30 p.m. media conference today with the four medical officers of health whose territories extend from the…
CORNWALL — Mandatory mask-wearing is about to be imposed on Eastern Ontario residents visiting stores and other indoor public spaces. Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis revealed Tuesday that plans are in…
EASTERN ONTARIO — More workplaces and amenities — hair salons, barbershops and restaurant patios among them — are able to reopen 12:01 a.m. Friday in a slew of Ontario regions, including those covered by the…
CORNWALL — The Eastern Ontario Health Unit is voicing support for yesterday’s demonstration in Russell and a similar Black Lives Matter march planned against systemic racism 1 p.m. today in Cornwall. However, the local Medical…
WINCHESTER — In another sign of these COVID-19 times, the lineup outside the Dawley Drive ServiceOntario Centre snaked across the front of the building and into the west end of the parking lot yesterday. Many…
EASTERN ONTARIO — The allure of a legal haircut beckons on the other side of the provincial border, in Quebec, where personal grooming services outside Montreal have been permitted to open their doors again as…
EASTERN ONTARIO — The dentist’s chair is now OK, but the salon chair remains forbidden territory. And it will only be “toward the end of summer” before increasingly shaggy Ontarians return to their barbers and…
Above, Dr. Paul Roumeliotis delivers his daily media briefing, including information on the expansion of COVID-19 tests to anyone wanting one, confirmation that Maxville Manor does have a confirmed positive case of COVID-19 (not a…
TORONTO — Ontario students won’t return to their classrooms this spring, as the province has put off reopening schools until the 2020-2021 school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug Ford, Minister of Education…
TORONTO — The provincial government is setting up an independent, non-partisan commission into Ontario’s long-term care system that has been so hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been clear the long-term care system…
ROCKLAND — A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in a garden-centre employee at Parent’s Independent in Rockland, though the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) says risk to the public “is considered to be low.”…
Above, in the last few minutes of the video of his daily media briefing (at -3:18), Dr. Paul Roumeliotis answers NVN’s question on whether he’s worried about the start of Ontario’s reopening given the apparent…
EASTERN ONTARIO — Cooped-up boaters are finally set to launch, and among the marinas back in business tomorrow, May 16, is Gray’s Creek Marina. The Raisin Region Conservation Authority (RRCA) confirmed yesterday its facility is…
WINCHESTER — Testing of Dundas Manor residents and staff appears have all returned negative for the novel coronavirus. Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis suggested as much during his May 5 daily…
CORNWALL — Ontario’s official record of nursing homes with past outbreaks of COVID-19 dropped by one yesterday as the province has admitted a data-entry error incorrectly placed Cornwall’s Heartwood Long-term Care Home in the category…
