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Canada marks 25,000 COVID-19 deaths
TORONTO, Canada (CTV Network) Canada has marked 25,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic started.
The country reached the grim milestone on Tuesday, after Ontario reported an additional 17 deaths related to the disease.
Many younger Canadians succumbed to the disease in recent months, as the third COVID-19 wave overwhelmed hospitals, especially in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. But the majority of deaths have occurred in long-term care homes across the country. A March 2021 report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) found that Canada had the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared to other countries.
Report documents Ontario government’s ruinous role in pandemic’s ravaging of long-term care homes
Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission submitted its final report to the province’s hard-right Progressive Conservative government at the end of last month. Its findings constitute a cogent condemnation of the failure of the Doug Ford-led Tory government to protect the province’s tens of thousands of elderly care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both Canada’s first and second waves of the pandemic Ontario’s chronically underfunded and profit-driven long-term care sector became the scene of mass infections and death.
A member of the Canadian Armed Forces working at a Quebec nursing home (Canadian Dept. of Defence)