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  TORONTO -- A critical care doctor in Toronto is calling for non-essential workplaces to be shuttered after a patient of his became infected with a COVID-19 variant while on the job. Dr. Michael Warner, medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, said that his patient is in his 30s and works an office job in the financial services industry. “He was completely healthy prior to acquiring his infection at work,” Warner said in a video on social media. “His employer ma...

So, Canada has reached more than a million cases of COVID-19 and 23,000 deaths due to the virus. Here in Ontario, we are in grey lockdown due to the rising…

One day into Ontario shutdown questions asked about how effective it will be by Maleeha Sheikh and News Staff Posted Apr 3, 2021 9:26 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 3, 2021 at 11:56 pm EDT On day one of the third provincewide lockdown business owners say the strict measures are impacting the wrong people and that stress over an uncertain future is at an all-time high due to the constant back-and-forth. Personal grooming services and gyms are among those affected by the new measures, closing their door...

Published Sunday, April 4, 2021 12:30PM EDT Toronto Mayor John Tory says the province needs to retool its COVID-19 vaccine priority list to focus on hardest-hit regions and essential workers, and stop just moving down the age pyramid to determine eligibility, as the number of patients in Ontario hospital ICUs hit a new record. Tory says that the spread in areas where essential workers cannot stay home is unacceptable and the current regime of vaccine rollout is not reaching the...

  TORONTO -- An Ontario woman in her 40s is dead after she contracted COVID-19 from her husband, who got sick after being told to go to work despite there being a known COVID-19 outbreak at the factory where he was employed, her doctor says. Dr. Michael Warner, medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, said the womans husband was told that since the outbreak wasnt among employees on his shift, he still had to go into work and wasnt entitled to pay if he chose not to. Wa...

Health experts, opposition react to 3rd provincial lockdown: It is a tragic and unequivocal failure by Lucas Casaletto Last Updated Apr 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm EDT Health officials and members of the opposition are reacting to the Ford government’s On Thursday, Premier Doug Ford said they are fighting “a new pandemic” with the variants and said the virus is spreading faster. The latest ban, in place for at least four weeks, includes restricting indoor public events and gatherings except for r...

  TORONTO -- As COVID-19 case levels rise across Canada, prompting new shutdowns in several provinces and causing doctors to ring alarm bells over ICU capacity, one question is front of mind: what will it take for Canada to rise out of this third wave? Experts are split on which strategy is best, but a common thread is the feeling that governments need to be doing more than they currently are, both in planning and communicating with the public. "Weve got two to three months of hard work," ...

Ontario health officials reported more than 2,300 new cases of COVID-19 as the province reached a record high number of people battling the disease in its intensive care units.

Published Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:30AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:10PM EDT The Ontario government will use its emergency brake and place the province in a shutdown for at least a month to reverse the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, CTV News has learned. Premier Doug Ford is expected to make the announcement on Thursday. According to sources, the shutdown will begin on April 3. In the shutdown zone, indoor gatherings are...

Ford to impose Ontario-wide shutdown as 3rd wave of COVID-19 hits hard With a record number of COVID-19 patients in Ontarios intensive care units and its highest-ever rate of new cases in schools, multiple sources say Premier Doug Ford will on Thursday announce plans to move the whole province into what the government describes as "shutdown" measures. Social Sharing