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Posted: Jan 02, 2021 4:36 PM ET | Last Updated: January 2
Maureen McDermott, a protester, wondered aloud at the rally how many people have to die before Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton bring in the Canadian Armed Forces.(Keith Burgess/CBC)
Scores of people protested outside a Scarborough long-term care home on Saturday to draw attention to conditions inside the facility where 60 residents have died of COVID-19.
Tendercare Living Centre, 1020 McNicoll Ave., has lost 60 residents to the novel coronavirus as of Saturday, according to North York General Hospital (NYGH). The provincial government asked NYGH on Dec. 25 to help the home manage its COVID-19 outbreak for 90 days.
60 people dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Scarborough long-term care home
by News Staff
Last Updated Jan 2, 2021 at 6:30 pm EDT
Five more people have died of COVID-19 at a Scarborough long-term care home, bringing the total number of resident deaths to 60.
Tendercare Living Centre, located at 1020 McNicoll Avenue, said in a news release Saturday the facility currently has 69 active cases.
However, they said this is the third day in a row there have been no new residents or staff who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Forty-three residents have recovered from the disease, they said. However, 39 staff have the virus and are isolating at their homes. Fifty-six staff have recovered and have returned to work.
TORONTO The families of residents at a Scarborough long-term care centre where a recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the death of at least 62 residents shared their stories about their ordeal at a town hall meeting on Sunday evening. The ‘Save our Seniors’ town hall provided several families an opportunity to talk about their experiences and the challenges they faced as they scrambled to get information about their loved ones after an outbreak was declared at Tendercare Living Centre. It was hosted by Scarborough-Southwest NDP MPP Doly Begum and Vivian Stamatopoulos, a long-term care home advocate and social science professor at Ontario Tech University.