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Article content A record number of critically ill COVID-19 patients were moved around Ontario hospitals Wednesday — cumulatively covering thousands of kilometres — as the province struggles to juggle patients between a dwindling supply of available hospital beds. More movement — much more — is coming, as Ontario health officials brace for Toronto-area hospitals to be hit hard by the third wave of COVID, fuelled by more contagious variants. We apologize, but this video has failed to load...

Article content Health Sciences North received its first two COVID-19 patients from southern Ontario on Wednesday, with more expected in the coming days. With Toronto-area hospitals being hit hard by the third wave of COVID, fuelled by more contagious variants, several critically ill patients have been moved to other parts of the province, with more movement expected as Ontario health officials deal with a dwindling supply of intensive care beds. We apologize, but this video has failed to load....

Ontario reports more than 4,200 COVID-19 cases, 32 additional deaths by Michael Ranger Last Updated Apr 21, 2021 at 2:35 pm EDT Ontario is reporting 4,212 new COVID-19 cases and 32 additional deaths on Wednesday. The province reports a test positivity rate of 7.9 percent, down significantly from 10 a day ago and a record rate of 10.5 two days ago. There were 51,877 tests completed in the last 24 hour period, up from more than 40,000 tests completed a day ago. Testing numbers are typically down ...

ICU pressures mount as COVID fells younger people; Ottawa mulls India travel ban by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted Apr 21, 2021 1:49 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 21, 2021 at 1:58 pm EDT TORONTO — Amid mounting pressures on critical care in hospitals and concerns about new variants, COVID-19 is striking a growing number of younger people, often with deadly results. A recent surge in hospital and ICU admissions has been particularly acute in Ontario, where experts have warned the system was...

TORONTO — COVID-19 placed mounting pressure on hospitals, struck a growing number of younger people and dealt a blow to the sporting world, although an American offer of vaccines provided some relief Wednesday. Several provinces reported high numbers of severely ill patients and concern grew over the spread of highly contagious variants of the virus. In one hopeful sign, however, U.S. President Joe Biden indicated America plans to send surplus COVID-19 vaccines to Canada, likely the Oxford-A...

  TORONTO -- Ontario says the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be offered to individuals 40 years old and over in pharmacies and primary care settings starting on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Health Minister Christine Elliott confirmed the change on Sunday evening. There have been growing calls for the provincial government to make the vaccine more widely available as Ontario continues to see record numbers in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid a third wave that is mainly driven by var...

  TORONTO -- As more of the new Ontario restrictions come into effect this morning, experts are registering their dismay over how the new rules fail to address actual issues raised persistently by health-care workers — such as the need for paid sick days. Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician, told CTV’s Your Morning that since “a significant portion” of the new infections are occurring in workplaces, the restrictions announced by Premier Doug Ford on Friday sho...

Published Sunday, April 18, 2021 7:02PM EDT Ontario says the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be offered to individuals 40 years old and over in pharmacies and primary care settings starting on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Health Minister Christine Elliott confirmed the change on Sunday evening. There have been growing calls for the provincial government to make the vaccine more widely available as Ontario continues to see record numbers in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations am...

As a physician inside the Michael Garron Hospital this weekend, he said, his ICU is full. “We have 17 ICU beds” with 18 people inside the unit, Warner said, adding 14 of those are COVID patients, most of whom have the B-117 variant. And he fully expects those numbers will grow. “It’s so contagious,” Warner said. “People are dying.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or During this pandemic, he said he has signed “29 death certificates.�...

For days now, as the Covid-19 case count mounted and horrifying hospital admissions surged, Canadians seemed dismayed and asked: how could this happen here, where most people dutifully followed public health guidelines?