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A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as health-care staff provide life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully.
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Doctors say Ontario ignored crucial 3rd wave warnings
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Public health officials have been warning the Ontario government about a crushing third wave for months, but health-care workers say the government didn t listen and its slow reactions may have cost lives.2:59
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the current stay-at-home order on April 7, he said the province s COVID-19 crisis had become worse than predicted. The capacity at the ICUs and these variants have taken off even beyond what they told us, the premier said. And the second I found out yesterday, immediately I asked them to start writing up the orders.
The Ford government will introduce new restrictions on inter-provincial travel and close down non-essential construction sites and recreational amenities in an effort to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19.