The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of local cases up to 21.
Almost all of the new cases are in Simcoe County, according to the health unit, and most of them are self-isolating. The twenty-first case is in Muskoka, according to the Simcoe Muskoka health unit’s medical officer of health, Dr.
Charles Gardner. Further information on the Muskoka case isn’t available at this time. The eight new Simcoe County cases include two men in their 40s, two women in their 50s, a man in his 50s, a woman in her 30s, a man in his 20s and man in his 60s.
Of the eight new cases, a man in his 40s and a woman in her 50s have been hospitalized. The source of infection for half of the