Posted: Jan 26, 2021 2:22 PM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Over 215 Ontario doctors and researchers have joined a campaign that s calling on the provincial government to abolish for-profit long-term care facilities. In this photos, crosses representing residents who died of COVID-19 adorn the lawn of Camilla Care Community, in Mississauga, Ont., on Jan. 13, 2021. The facility is among Ontario’s hardest-hit by the pandemic.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Zalan: We need a Northern Bubble now and a ring around Barrie
Sudbury doctor says a the province should follow the lead of New Zealand, which put a ring of police around the capital Auckland, to contain the new coronavirus variant to Barrie and prevent it from coming north
Jan 26, 2021 2:00 PM By: Dr. Peter Zalan
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“This progressed so rapidly.” Dr Gardner, the medical officer of health for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, was commenting on the extraordinary speed at which the new variant has spread.
He confirmed that testing of residents and staff in the Roberta Place Long Term Care Home in Barrie, has identified the B.1.1.7 variant, the so-called UK coronavirus variant. The outbreak has spread to all but two of its 127 residents. Eighty-four staff members have also tested positive. Thirty-two people have died (as of publication).
Ontario wrestles with how to contain more contagious variant of COVID-19
Officials are debating whether additional public health measures are needed to rein in a COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom that is now spreading in Ontario.
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Posted: Jan 26, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 26
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force meeting at the legislature on Dec. 4. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
Canada's chief public health officer called for "stringent and consistent efforts" to continue the country's recent downward trend in new COVID-19 cases.
Ontario reported 2,359 new cases of COVID-19 and 52 more deaths on Saturday.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2021 10:23 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23
A road sign in Toronto urges people to do their bit to halt the spread of COVID-19 in the city.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Ontario reported 2,359 new cases of COVID-19 and 52 more deaths on Saturday.
Toronto has 708 new cases, Peel Region has 422, York Region has 220, Hamilton has 107 and Ottawa has 101.
A total of 1,501 people are in hospital with COVID-19, 395 in intensive care units and 299 are on ventilators.
Ontario Minister of Health Christine Elliott said the province s network of labs completed nearly 63,500 tests in the last 24 hours.