About&nbsp;a month-and-a-half after it first started, the North-Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit says a COVID-19 outbreak at the Skyline-Lancelot Apartment building is now over.

The health unit says throughout the outbreak, 45 people tested positive for COVID-19.

Of those, 23 people tested positive for a variant of concern originating from South Africa.

Three people connected to the outbreak died.

While all cases are now resolved and there are no pending test results, the health unit says it's still investigating the outbreak, and says it&nbsp;hopes the findings will help to prevent a similar situation somewhere else.

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Over 40 tenants at the Lancelot Apartments in North Bay have tested positive for COVID-19, about 26 of them for one of the new variants. Two people who lived in the building have died. 

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It's been confirmed that the COVID-19 outbreak at Skyline-Lancelot Apartments involves the variant that emerged from South Africa.

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Twelve people connected to the COVID-19 outbreak at Skyline-Lancelot Apartments have tested positive for the variant of concern originating from South Africa.

North Bay health unit confirms 1st case of COVID-19 Variant first discovered in South Africa

The COVID-19 Variant of Concern first discovered in South Africa has been confirmed in North Bay. The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit confirmed the case, and says it is one of the cases connected to a community outbreak.

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The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has confirmed it has one positive case of the COVID-19 Variant of Concern first discovered in South Africa. The individual is one of the cases connected to a community outbreak in North Bay.

North Bay health unit declares outbreak at Skyline-Lancelot Apartments

The North Bay health unit says a COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at an apartment building in the community.

The health unit says there's preliminary confirmation of a COVID-19 variant of concern in two of the COVID-19 cases found at a North Bay apartment building.

A total of 45 tenants at the Skyline-Lancelot Apartments in North Bay tested positive for COVID-19, with more than half being infected with the new variants. Three people who lived in the building died. 

COVID outbreak at North Bay apartment building now declared over

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