‘Heart-wrenching’: Families recount deadly COVID-19 outbreak at Ontario nursing home Grigg’s 75-year-old mother Evelyn VanEmbden is one of more than 120 people infected with COVID-19 at Roberta Place, a long-term care home in Barrie, Ont.Sixty-three residents and one essential caregiver who worked at the home have now died from the virus since the outbreak, linked to one case of international travel, began around Jan.