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May is Rabies Awareness Month and the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit (HNHU) would like to remind animal owners to protect their pets and family by vaccinating their animals (including their farm animals) against rabies. Vaccinating domestic animals is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of rabies. It also helps lower the risk to […]

SIMCOE, May 25, 2020 – The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s Medical Officer of Health is issuing a Heat Warning for the residents and visitors of Haldimand and Norfolk counties. A Heat Warning is issued when two consecutive days are forecasted to have a daytime high temperature of 31°C or higher and a nighttime temperature of 20°C […]

May 22, 2020, Simcoe, ON – Two staff members at Norview Lodge and one at Cedarwood Village have tested positive for COVID-19. The staff members are not working at the facilities and are currently in self-isolation at home. There are no residents at either facility currently sick with COVID-19. Residents are being self-isolated in their […]

May 20, 2020, Simcoe, ON – A Health and Social Services employee working at the Gilbertson Administration Building in Simcoe – closed to the public since March 17 – has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee is self-isolating at home, and Health Unit staff have asked close contacts to self-isolate at home pending their own […]

Two residents of Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home have tested positive for COVID-19. The residents, at the current time, do not have symptoms. Tests have been ordered for all residents and staff. The test results that have been received so far, beyond the two positive individuals, have been negative. Additional test results are pending. Residents are […]