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BARRIE, Ont. — Police in Barrie, Ont., are set to open up an area of the city hit by a tornado last week. The city says cleanup in the affected area has progressed well, with public lands cleared off by Sunday.

Police say two people have died in a traffic collision in Clarington, Ont. The Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened just before 7 a.m. Monday.

NORFOLK COUNTY, Ont. — Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating the death of a 42-year-old man in Norfolk County.

TORONTO — The Northern Tornadoes Project says five different tornadoes hit southern Ontario on Thursday afternoon.

TORONTO — Ontario recorded 177 new COVID-19 cases and six more deaths linked to the virus today. The province says the new cases include 33 in Grey Bruce, 32 in the Region of Waterloo, 22 in Toronto, 16 in Hamilton and 12 in Peel Region.

TORONTO — The last time Elisha Lemoire saw her father in person, she dropped him off at the hospital for surgery, hugged him and told him, "I love you. You've got this.

ELGIN COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA — Provincial police say a one-year-old girl has died days after an incident around a fire pit that left four other family members injured at their home in Bayham, Ont.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 176 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths today. The province says the new cases include 37 in Toronto, 20 each in the regions of Waterloo and Peel, 15 in Grey Bruce and 11 in York Region.

An Ontario utility company is warning the public of a scam targeting residents in a neighbourhood struck by a tornado. Alecta Utilities says it was notified by customers of people going door-to-door in Barrie, Ont., posing as company employees.

TORONTO — Two groups representing Ontario's physicians and registered nurses are calling for the mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of the province's health-care workers, a policy Premier Doug Ford has said he will not support.