The Canadian Forces will deploy up to three medical teams in Ontario to provide support to hospitals that are struggling to deal with an influx of COVID-19 patients. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair announced the support late on Monday afternoon in response to a formal request for help from Ontario’s Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. According to a news release, the Canadian Forces will be deploying up to three “multi-purpose medical assistance teams” which will primarily be composed of nursing officers and medical technicians as well as additional Canadian Forces members “for general duty support.” The release says that the teams will be “rotated in and out of the province rather than deployed simultaneously to ensure that CAF support is sustainable.
TORONTO Ontario health officials are reporting more than 2,700 new COVID-19 infections, pushing the province s lab-confirmed case total past 500,000. The 2,759 new cases logged Thursday mark an increase over the previous day s total when 2,320 were added. On Tuesday, the province reported another 2,073 cases, marking the lowest single-day case count in more than a month. With 47,638 tests processed in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health says Ontario s COVID-19 positivity rate stands at 5.7 per cent. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Ontario has seen 502,171 cases of the disease across the province, including 464,531 infections that are considered to be resolved. That number also includes 8,405 COVID-19-related deaths, of which 31 were reported since yesterday.
Posted: May 11, 2021 5:57 PM ET | Last Updated: May 11
Urban Indigenous people in Ontario will be able to receive their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine three to four weeks after their initial dose, the province announced Monday.(Francis Ferland/CBC)
Indigenous people in Ontario living in urban areas will be able to receive their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine within the three- to four-week interval recommended by manufacturers, the province announced Monday. If you are First Nations, Inuit or Metis, you should have priority no matter where you live, said Jennifer David, who is a member of Chapleau Cree First Nation in northern Ontario, but lives in Ottawa.
Posted: May 12, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 12
Deepi Saharan, an intensive care unit nurse in the Toronto area who cares for COVID-19 patients, says some physicians working under nurses in ICUs are earning as much as $450 an hour. Her recent post on Instagram received support from thousands of people.(Submitted by Deepi Saharan)
Two Toronto-area nurses are airing their frustrations over how the Ontario government let their pandemic pay expire while continuing to pay boosted wages to doctors, some of whom are doing the same work as nurses due to COVID-19.
Deepi Saharan, 27, received support from thousands of people when she
TORONTO Ontario is reporting more than 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday as the number of patients in intensive care with the disease drops below 800 for the first time in weeks. The 2,320 infections mark a slight increase over Tuesday s total when 2,073 were logged, which was the lowest number of cases reported since March 24. According to data provided by the Ministry of Health, there are currently 776 patients in an intensive care unit with COVID-19. The last time ICU admissions fell below the 800 mark was on March 21 when 790 patients were receiving treatment. Meanwhile, labs across Ontario conducted 45,681 tests for the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 6.4 per cent. Testing numbers had slumped on Monday and Tuesday with just under 30,000 tests performed each day.