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Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, accepting birthday cards for its 700th birthday -- in case you forgot

PETERBOROUGH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - 2022/03/12: A father holding a Lithuanian flag arrives at the prayer ceremony with his children with Lithuanian flags painted on their cheeks. At a time when Ukraine is under attack from Vladimir Putin's VILNIUS, Lithuania - Vilnius, the capital of the eastern European nation of Lithuania, is celebrating its 700th birthday this January by doing what Lithuanians do best — being cheeky. It may sound extremely meta, but the nation’s tourism department knows many people around the world don’t think much about its capital, let alone be able to find it on a map.

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Snow forecast increased, blizzard conditions expected in southern Ontario with major storm

A major winter storm is set to move into southern Ontario on Friday and Global News meteorologist Anthony Farnell says many areas may see more snow than initially expected.

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2,000 firearms stolen from Peterborough-based trucking company

A shipment carrying 2,000 small-calibre firearms was stolen from a Peterborough-based trucking company.

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SIU investigates double fatal crash on Lansdowne Street in Peterborough

According to the SIU, a Peterborough Police Service officer had a short pursuit of a vehicle that went through a red light. However, the police lost sight of the vehicle and ended the pursuit.

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1 dead following Highway 115 multi-vehicle collision south of Peterborough

Peterborough County OPP say one person has died following a three-vehicle collision on Highway 115 south of Peterborough on Monday morning. The collision occurred near Porter Road. The cause of the collision remains under investigation.

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Black bear sightings in Peterborough’s West End

Peterborough Police have sent out a warning online concerning a black bear that has been reportedly sighted throughout May in the city’s west end.

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COVID-19: Fairhaven long-term care resident discharged from home’s isolation unit

COIVD-19 has been discharged from the isolation unit set up at Fairhaven long-term care in Peterborough.The municipally-run facility stated Monday morning that the resident was asymptomatic while in insolation in the Westview 2 view and is now “returning to her home.”An outbreak was declared at the 256-bed Dutton Road home on May 21 after an employee and a resident tested positive. A second employee has since tested positive.

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COVID-19: 13th death reported in Peterborough area, active cases fall to 119

Peterborough Public Health reported its 13th COVID-19-related death on Tuesday, along with 13 new cases in the region.In its COVID tracker at 4:23 p.m., there are now 119 active cases of COVID-19, dipping from 123 reported 24 hours earlier and 132 reported on Sunday. COVID-19: April record month for new cases for Peterborough Public Health with 10 days to go Of the health unit’s 1,127 cumulative cases (one removed from a previous day) since the pandemic’s beginning, 373 are variant of concern cases, up from 367 on Monday.

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COVID-19: 8 new cases in Peterborough area, presumed variants surpass 200

COVID-19 cases were reported in the Peterborough area on Thursday, according to the region’s health unit. Ontario’s COVID-19 ’emergency brake’ shutdown takes effect on Saturday There are also another eight presumed variant of concern cases for a total of 206, up from 198 reported 24 hours earlier.

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COVID-19: Vaccination bookings available for residents age 70 and up in Peterborough area

Peterborough Public Health can now book a COVID-19 vaccination appointment, the health unit announced Thursday morning.Appointments for the residents (born in 1951 or before) can be made either online at any time or by calling 249-494-5631 from Mondays to Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., including Good Friday and Easter Monday (April 5).

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COVID-19: 11 new cases for Peterborough area, presumed variant cases climb to 193

Peterborough Public Health reported another 11 new cases COVID-19 on Tuesday and additional presumed variant of concern cases.The health unit at 4:07 p.m. reports 50 active cases, down from 52 reported on Monday.

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COVID-19: Cases reported at Prince of Wales Public School, Kenner Collegiate in Peterborough

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board reports new student cases of COVID-19 at two of its schools in Peterborough.Single cases were reported Friday morning at Prince of Wales Public School and at Kenner Collegiate and Vocational Institute, both on Monaghan Road.The school board says both schools remain open. COVID-19 cases rising among young Canadians as deadlier variants begin to dominate In a letter to students and parents issued Thursday, Kenner Collegiate principal Jennifer Knox says the individual will remain at home until Peterborough Public Health advises they may return to school.

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COVID-19: Norwood Fair cancelled for second straight year

coronavirus pandemic.The Norwood Fair, which features agricultural competitions and events, arts and crafts, a midway and vendors, typically draws approximately 50,000 people through the gates every year.The cancellation in 2020 was the first time since the Second World War the fair didn’t run.“This decision was made after much consideration, discussion and anxiety,” organizers stated on Facebook. “We thank everyone for their support over the past 152 years and look forward to ‘business as usual’ in 2022.”If the Norwood Fair goes ahead in 2022 as planned, it will be held on Oct.

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Criminal charges possible in Severn Court Student Residence COVID-19 outbreak in Peterborough

COVID-19 outbreak at the Severn Court Student Residence continues.During Thursday’s media conference hosted by Peterborough Public Health, police Chief Scott Gilbert says while he understands there’s a “great public demand” for a conclusion into the investigation, he asked the public for patience, noting it’s a challenging investigation as they work with health information and privacy issues. COVID-19 — Death reported in outbreak at Severn Court Student Residence in Peterborough The outbreak was declared on Feb.

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COVID-19: Death reported in outbreak at Severn Court Student Residence in Peterborough

COVID-19 outbreak at Severn Court Student Residence in Peterborough has claimed the life of a resident, the region’s health unit reported Tuesday.According to Peterborough Public Health, the man, who was a resident in the west-end student residence, was hospitalized in Toronto last week after being diagnosed with a COVID-19 variant of concern. He died on Monday.The outbreak was declared on Feb.

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COVID-19: 2 new cases in Peterborough area; presumed variants surpass 100

COVID-19 and another dozen variants were reported in the Peterborough area on Thursday, according to the region’s health unit.Peterborough Public Health‘s COVID-19 tracker site as of 4:23 p.m. listed 76 active cases in its jurisdiction, down from 81 reported on Wednesday.

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People age 60-64 will soon be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine at primary care and community sites in Simcoe County and Muskoka, the Ontario government announced Wednesday.The initiative will begin locally, as well as in Peterborough, Peel Region, Guelph, Hamilton and Toronto on Saturday, March 13. Here are the pharmacies administering COVID-19 vaccines in Toronto, Kingston and Windsor-Essex The province said it’s working with primary care providers to offer vaccines at places like doctors’ offices in collaboration with local public health units.Primary care providers won’t be taking appointments by request but will be contacting eligible Ontarians aged 60 to 64 to book an appointment starting Wednesday.

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COVID-19: Fleming College student council supports investigation and sanctions for party

Severn Court Student Residence in Peterborough has led to the area’s largest COVID-19 outbreak to date, resulting in more than 50 positive cases.As of early Monday morning, Peterborough Public Health reported 51 cases at the privately owned student residence, many a presumed variant of concern, and another seven cases at Champlain College at Trent University. Officials say both outbreaks are linked to the party. Peterborough student residence outbreak could lead to community lockdown, medical officer of health says Global News Peterborough spoke with a student who lives at Severn Court, granting them anonymity due to their fear of reprisal.“People are pissed. I know my roommates and I aren’t happy right now.

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COVID-19: Peterborough Public Health, MPP Dave Smith plan virtual town hall on vaccine rollout

COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan for Peterborough and area.The virtual and teleconference town hall from 7-8 p.m on March 16 is being co-hosted by Peterborough Public Health and Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith. The town hall will focus on COVID-19 vaccine distribution for priority groups, the rollout plan for the region, information on the various types of vaccines and feature a question and answer segment.

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Coronavirus: 4 new cases for Peterborough and area, 27 presumed variant cases

COVID-19 and another jump in variant cases in its jurisdiction over the last 24 hours.The data was posted around 5:18 p.m. on the health unit’s daily COVID-19 tracker website (data subject to change due to investigations, case transfers, etc).

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COVID-19: Outbreak cases jump to 34 at Peterborough student residence

COVID-19 cases associated with an outbreak at a post-secondary student residence in Peterborough is now at 34.During a Tuesday noontime media conference, Peterborough Public Health reported that the number of cases at the Severn Court Student Residence near Fleming College increased by seven over the last 24 hours.The 34 cases include 29 Fleming students and five Trent University students, according to medical officer of health Dr. Rosana Salvaterra.

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COVID-19: Active cases up to 50 for Peterborough area, outbreak declared over at Buckhorn daycare

COVID-19 since Friday as active counts continue to rise.The new cases include nine reported on Monday, which followed 10 on Sunday and seven on Saturday, according to the health unit’s COVID-19 tracker. Some of the new cases are linked to the outbreak declared Saturday at Severn Court Student Residence in Peterborough’s west end which serves primarily Fleming College and Trent University students.After six cases were initially reported Saturday, the outbreak case count is up to 27 as of Monday afternoon.

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Peterborough student residence outbreak could lead to community lockdown: Medical Officer of Health

COVID-19 outbreak at a student residence near Fleming College in Peterborough has confirmed cases of a “variant of concern.”Declared on Saturday, by Monday afternoon there were already 27 confirmed cases associated with the outbreak at Severn Court Student Residence.Peterborough Public Health medical officer of health, Dr. Rosana Salvaterra, told Global News Morning on Monday that the outbreak could lead to hundreds of cases if it is not contained.“That’s my worry.

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Ontario provides additional $3.48M transit funding to Peterborough city, county

City of Peterborough and Peterborough County amid the coronavirus pandemic.On Monday, Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith announced the funding, which includes $3,487,386 for the city and $2,088 for the county. The funding is part of Monday’s province-wide announcement of $150 million in additional funding to help municipal transit systems address the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19: Outbreak up to 23 cases at Peterborough student residence

COVID-19 outbreak was declared Saturday at a student residence in Peterborough.Peterborough Public Health held a news conference on Sunday afternoon to provide more details on the outbreak declared at Severn Court student residence in the city’s west end. Universities in Ontario seek government support in face of $500M shortfall due to COVID-19 The 555 Wilfred Drive residence court consists of six buildings and is home to approximately 200 students from both Fleming College and Trent University.The health unit said based on its initial investigations, several of the exposures occurred during a “private gathering” on Feb.

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COVID-19: Student case at James Strath Public School in Peterborough; outbreak at retirement residence

COVID-19 case has been reported at James Strath Public School in Peterborough and a new outbreak at a retirement home in the city.Global News Peterborough has learned the case involves a student at the junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school in the city’s northwest end.Peterborough Public Health directed inquires to the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, which provided a letter from principal Michelle Borgatti which was issued to parents and guardians on Friday afternoon. The letter but did not specify if the case was a student or staff.“This individual will remain at home until the health unit advises they may return to school.

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COVID-19: 3 new cases for Peterborough area, more child cases at Buckhorn daycare, Havelock school cleared

COVID-19, including a variant of concern on Tuesday.The new cases, along with nine more resolved cases, decrease the number of active cases to 35 as reported on the health unit’s COVID-19 tracker. There are now 570 resolved cases out of the 614 cases since the pandemic was declared.

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First case of U.K. variant of COVID-19 found in Peterborough area

U.K. variant of the novel coronavirus.On Tuesday morning, the health unit says the resident tested positive for B.1.1.7, which is a variant first detected in the United Kingdom.

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Peterborough the hardest hit community when it comes to job loss during the pandemic

In Peterborough alone there were approximately 8,400 people out of work. Tricia Mason has the story…

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Coronavirus: Ontario loses 355,000 jobs in 2020, single largest decline on record: FAO

COVID-19 pandemic.The Financial Accountability Officer says in a new report today that the job losses represent the single largest annual decline on record.The report says that in addition to job losses, more than 765,000 Ontario residents worked fewer hours because of the pandemic.

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Family Day 2021 in Peterborough: What’s open and closed

Family Day may be quieter this year as the Peterborough area marks the final day of the provincial stay-at-home order enacted to curb COVID-19 spread. The region goes to a yellow-protect level on Tuesday.The third Monday of February is a statutory holiday meaning all provincial and most municipal offices and services are closed.Here’s what’s open and closed in Peterborough on Monday, Feb.

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First round of COVID-19 vaccination completed for long-term care residents in Peterborough area

COVID-19 vaccination for long-term care home residents and some staff.As of Feb. 10, the health unit reports 976 first doses have been administered to eligible residents and some staff.

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Ontario provides $865,900 for Northumberland-Peterborough South LTC homes for COVID-19

coronavirus pandemic.On Wednesday, riding MPP David Piccini announced the funding will support 11 long-term care homes to help increase prevention and containment efforts during the second wave of the virus.“We have met every stage of this pandemic with enhanced action to support homes to prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19 and ensure they have access to the resources they need to care for our loved ones,” he stated.“We will continue to do everything we can to help stop the spread of this virus and protect our most vulnerable and the staff who have been working tirelessly to keep them safe.” Ontario provides $613,000 to Peterborough-area long-term care homes for COVID-19 Additional funding allocations (accumulative totals since the

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Coronavirus: 8th death reported in Peterborough area; over 400 long-term care residents vaccinated

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COVID-19: Outbreak declared at Peterborough Retirement Residence, 6 new cases in region

coronavirus on Tuesday afternoon as well as a new outbreak at a retirement residence.The outbreak was declared at Peterborough Retirement Residence on Water St. Case details were not made available.

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Fairhaven long-term care residents first in Peterborough to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Fairhaven long-term care in Peterborough was the first facility to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Peterborough, the region’s health unit reports Tuesday.According to Peterborough Public Health, Elizabeth Campbell, 106, a resident at Fairhaven, was the first to receive a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday afternoon. Peterborough hospital receives COVID-19 vaccine; doses arrive Tuesday at long-term care homes She received it from Lori Rowsell, an infection prevention and control practitioner at Fairhaven, a municipally run facility that has dealt with several coronavirus outbreaks, including a 40-day outbreak that claimed the lives of three residents in November.“This is an exciting day for Peterborough,” stated Dr.

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COVID-19: 11 new cases over weekend in Peterborough and area

COVID-19 over the weekend.As of Sunday evening, there have been 514 cumulative cases of COVID-19 in the region since the pandemic was declared in March 2020 — up from 502 reported on Friday evening. There were 11 new cases over Saturday and Sunday and an additional case from previous days was added to Sunday’s data, the health unit notes.

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Coronavirus: Back-to-school Monday for some Ontario students

COVID-19 caseloads in parts of the province ease, many students in Ontario are preparing to go back to school again on Monday.Schools in seven public health units in southern Ontario will reopen to in-person learning on Jan. 25, while the rest will continue learning from home.The list includes Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington; Hastings and Prince Edward Counties; Leeds, Grenville and Lanark; Peterborough; Renfrew County Grey Bruce; Haliburton, Kawartha, and Pine Ridge.

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Ontario boards gear up to quickly reopen some schools as Ford government issues directive

Ontario school boards that straddle public health units are gearing up to reopen only a portion of their schools to in-person learning next week, adding another layer of complexity to an academic year that’s been defined by quick pivots.The government order allowing schools in seven public health units to reopen physical classrooms as of Monday means nine boards now have to create different plans for different towns in their jurisdiction.“It’s definitely more difficult to have one board be going in two different directions,” said Diane Lloyd, chair of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, which oversees schools in Clarington, Ont., that will remain closed and ones in Northumberland and Peterborough that will reopen.

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Peterborough-area parents mixed on return to in-class learning on Jan. 25

coronavirus pandemic.On Wednesday, the province announced that based on the most recent data and advice of the chief medical officer of health, most schools within the jurisdiction of Peterborough Public Health and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit can resume in-person learning on Jan. 25.Parent reaction to the news is mixed.

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Province of Ontario to keep Waterloo Region schools closed going forward

Coronavirus: Most Ontario elementary students will continue online learning until Jan. 25 “The Chief Medical Officer of Health will continue to review the public health trends and advise the government on the resumption of in person learning,” Caitlin Clark said in an email.Schools in Kingston, Peterborough and some other remote areas of the province will join some northern Ontario students in making their return to the classroom on Monday.On Boxing Day, the province announced that all schools across the province would remain closed for an extra week after Christmas.Those students were expected to return to in-person learning on Jan.

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Schools in just 7 southern Ontario regions to open in-person Monday, rest stay online

Ontario can reopen to in-person learning on Monday while the rest will continue teaching students online.Those seven public health units are Grey Bruce; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge; Hastings and Prince Edward Counties; Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington; Leeds, Grenville and Lanark; Peterborough; and Renfrew County.The government says schools in all other southern Ontario public health units will continue remote learning.

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COVID-19: Fairhaven LTC outbreak kept to 1 employee; Peterborough health unit reports 5 new cases

Fairhaven long-term care in Peterborough says its current COVID-19 outbreak has been contained to one employee.The outbreak at the municipally-run facility was declared on Jan. 11 after an employee in the Westview 3 home section of the Dutton Road facility tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: New COVID-19 outbreak declared at Fairhaven long-term care in Peterborough

COVID-19 outbreak was declared at Fairhaven long-term care in Peterborough, health officials announced Monday evening.The latest outbreak was Peterborough Public Health after its initial daily case update was announced at 4 p.m. citing three new COVID-19 cases and 11 resolved cases and only two active outbreaks.No other details have been made immediately available on the newest outbreak — now the health unit’s third.Fairhaven is still reeling from two outbreaks over the past three months — one which claimed the lives of three residents.

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Coronavirus: 3 charged in Lindsay for social gathering

COVID-19 safety regulations in place under the provincewide shutdown.Police state they found “multiple individuals inside, who did not reside at the residence.” Port Hope-area man charged in connection with November gathering in London The KLPS is strongly advising members of the public to educate themselves on current health directives and enforcement measures during the lockdown, including illegal gatherings and the associated fines.This is the latest example of social gatherings in Peterborough and the Kawarthas during the lockdown.On Jan.

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COVID-19: Death reported in City of Kawartha Lakes; health unit’s cases surpass 600

COVID-19 death in the City of Kawartha Lakes.Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health reported its 37th death overall (and 34th in the Kawarthas) since the pandemic was declared. Case details were not immediately available.

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Municipal service changes during provincewide shutdown in Peterborough and City of Kawartha Lakes

provincewide shutdown, which went into effect Dec. 26, 2020, most municipal services are continuing in some shape or form, although public access to many buildings is restricted.In Peterborough, city hall, the Peterborough Museum and Archives, all arenas and the Art Gallery of Peterborough are once again closed to the public.City staff are still accessible by phone or email during the shutdown, which runs until Jan.

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COVID-19: Peterborough MOH says rising cases ’cause for concern’; outbreak over at Riverview Manor

COVID-19 cases over the holidays is a “cause for concern.”During a media briefing on Wednesday, Dr. Rosana Salvaterra urged residents “to do better” and adhere to protocols under the provincial shutdown, which went into effect on Dec.

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